Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Open Reading Frame, Selectable Marker, Shuttle Vector
18 Apr 2017
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Easy to be maintained under laboratory conditions. Produces larger number of offspring in a short period of time (short generation time) cloning/transformation procedures are in place. Can address interesting questions to obtain funding. Things that we use in order to study biological questions. Clone and modify the organism easily: be able to generate mutants. Community support: a lot of funding going into an organism and resources about the organism (such as genome and mutant sequences: lots of people working on the same organism. There are different scales and different model organisms for different biological/genetic questions. Universal properties (bacteria, protists, worms , insects, mammals, fungi, plants, etc) All organisms use basic processes - transcription, translation, replication, mutation, etc. There are lots of representatives of different groups. All these organisms use the similar machinery such as transcription and translation: whatever we learn from these models, we can generally apply to other organisms.
