Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Neomycin, Transfer Dna, Gamete
18 Apr 2016
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Model organisms are living things that exhibit qualities ideal for experimental study. Ideally, model organisms should encompass different scales (sort of as representatives of a particular group of organisms) so we can make cross-comparisons between species, answering different biological/genetic questions. Different scales of model organisms span the basic universal processes/properties of life (transcription, translation, replication, etc. ) which are present in all groups of organisms (bacteria, mammals, plants, fungi, etc. ). With this in mind, we can compare how similar or different these processes through the process of evolution. We can compare certain model organisms like drosophila and compare it to organisms within the same taxon (other insects) looking for taxon-specific properties. The same can be said of species-specific properties, where our drosophila species would be compared with other species of that same drosophila genus. S. cerevisiae are also known as the budding yeast because of its mode of reproduction.
