Model organisms

Model organisms are species that are used to study certain aspects of biology.

Following is a list of common model organisms:

Prokaryotes:

• E. coli

Eukaryotes:

• yeast

• C. elegans

• Fruit fly

• Arabidopsis thaliana

• Chicken

• Mouse

Each of these has specific advantages. Depending on your experiment, you can choose which one to use. Check out this list of advantages of model organisms and figure out which are important for your experiment!