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Biology 2e

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Author:Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark

Publisher:Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark

Chapter28: Invertebrates

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Problem 33CTQ: Enumerate features of Caenoihabditis elegans that make it a valuable model system for biologists

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Enumerate features of Caenorhabditis elegans that
make it a valuable model system for biologists.

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Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus.

Caenorhabditis elegans is unsegmented, vermiform, and bilaterally symmetrical. It has a cuticle (a tough outer covering, as an exoskeleton), four main epidermal cords, and a fluid-filled pseudocoelom (body cavity). It also has some of the same organ systems as larger animals.

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