"Excitingly, we were then able to show that the model worked in other photosynthetic organisms besides green plants, and that the model identified a general and fundamental property of ...

Sea anemone is genetically half animal, half plant Date: March 18, 2014 ... which is essential for the microRNA biogenesis in plants and was never detected in any other animal model organism before.

Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

A Johns Hopkins engineer co-led a team that has sequenced the genome of the world's most widely used model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana, at a level of detail never previously achieved.Up until ...

September 15, 2005 (Vol. 25, No. 16) Range of Offerings Are Available Nature uses a common framework when building organisms as different as yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and humans. This makes ...

Genetic similarity and common ancestry are key principles behind model organism research. All living things are related, from unicellular bacteria to complex multicellular plants and animals.This ...

These are model organisms: plants and animals that scientists in each of these fields study to make sense of almost all other plants and animals in the world. For example, ...

Plants have no visual organs, so how do they know where light comes from? In an original study combining expertise in biology and engineering, the team led by Prof Christian Fankhauser at UNIL, in ...

Animal and plant cells can be visualised using a model. Find out how to make them with Bitesize. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.