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  2. List of model organisms - Wikipedia

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    Oryza sativa (Rice) is used as a model for cereal biology. It has one of the smallest genomes of any cereal species, and sequencing of its genome is finished. [16] (Agronomy, Molecular biology) Physcomitrella patens. Populus, genus used as a model in forest genetics and woody plant studies. It has a small genome size, grows very rapidly, and is ...

  3. Model organism - Wikipedia

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    Escherichia coli is a gram-negative prokaryotic model organism Drosophila melanogaster, one of the most famous subjects for genetics experiments Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the most intensively studied eukaryotic model organisms in molecular and cell biology. A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand ...

  4. Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    For example, a basic biology taxonomy would have concepts such as mammal, which is a subset of animal, and dogs and cats, which are subsets of mammal. This kind of taxonomy is called an is-a model because the specific objects are considered as instances of a concept. For example, Fido is-an instance of the concept dog and Fluffy is-a cat. [23]

  5. Cladistics - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans. Many of these terms are normally used paraphyletically , outside of cladistics, e.g. as a ' grade ', which are fruitless to precisely delineate, especially when including extinct species.

  6. List of biological databases - Wikipedia

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    Protein model databases Swiss-model: server and repository for protein structure models Protein model databases AAindex: database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials Protein model databases BioGRID: Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute: general repository for interaction datasets

  7. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The science of classification, in biology the arrangement of organisms into a classification [4] "The science of classification as applied to living organisms, including the study of means of formation of species, etc." [5] "The analysis of an organism's characteristics for the purpose of classification" [6]

  8. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    This six-kingdom model is commonly used in recent US high school biology textbooks, but has received criticism for compromising the current scientific consensus. [13] But the division of prokaryotes into two kingdoms remains in use with the recent seven kingdoms scheme of Thomas Cavalier-Smith, although it primarily differs in that Protista is ...

  9. Scientific modelling - Wikipedia

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    A scientific model seeks to represent empirical objects, phenomena, and physical processes in a logical and objective way. All models are in simulacra, that is, simplified reflections of reality that, despite being approximations, can be extremely useful. [6] Building and disputing models is fundamental to the scientific enterprise.