Most of us assume that all lab rats are the same, but there are several different strains of
common lab rats.
Not exact matches
Like mice,
rats are
common in
labs.
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, scientists use this
common species as a marine version of a
lab rat to research hormones, blood and organs.
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Rats and mice, the most
common lab animals, can't tell us much about speech disorders, since their vocalizations are innate, not learned.
Her plants are Arabidopsis thaliana, or
common mustard cress — roadside weeds that serve as the plant world's equivalent of
lab rats.
(In fact, the ubiquitous white
rat that conjures
lab coats and mazes is a
common brown
rat simply bred as an albino.)
Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd
Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as
rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.
For example, BHA... one of the most
common synthetic antioxidant preservatives mainly used to prevent food discoloration and rancidity... has been found in scientific studies to cause stomach cancer in
lab rats at certain doses.
The sanctuary fights to save a variety of
lab animals, from
common pigeons and
rats to cuddlier bunnies and beagles, and works with researchers and students to lobby for
lab animals» right to life after experimentation.