Sentences with phrase «useful model organism»

The experiments in Bayreuth, which also included several doctoral researchers — concentrated on the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a common plant in the fields of Europe and Asia that has proven to be a useful model organism in biological research.

Arabidopsis was an extremely useful model organism for plants.

In an e-mail to Nature a few days later, Kogan said that zebrafish might be a useful model organism for psychiatric disease after all.

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Species distribution or crop - niche modeling is another sophisticated technology that archeologists use to predict where plants and other organisms grew well in the past and where they might be useful today.

If the model organism genome projects are to be maximally useful in assigning functions to human DNA sequences, they will need to utilize the powerful tools for determining gene function that are available to them so that not only the sequences of the genes, but also their biological functions, are determined.