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Fruitfly, scientifc name Drosophila melanogaster (dew-loving black-belly), is a model organism used in biological studies. Since they are small, easy to reproduce, has a decoded genome and has many mutant strains, it is most oftenly used in genetics and molecular Biology studies involving a model multicellular eukaryotic organism. Other model organisms include Arabidopsis thaliana, a model multicellular plant, zebrafish, a model fish, rats and mice, model mammals, Escherichia coli, a model bacteria, saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast), a model unicellular eukaryote, and T4 phage, a model virus.

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