Caenorhabditis elegans - ANSWER✔✔-Nematode; Worm commonly found in soil for studies of
development and cell differentiation
Drosophila Melanogaster - ANSWER✔✔-Fruit fly; used for over 100 years of genetic studies. Many
human genes were first identified by their counterparts in Drosophila
Apis mellifera - ANSWER✔✔-Honey bee; model for studies of communication, behavior, neurology
ecology and evolution.
Danio rerio - ANSWER✔✔-Zebrafish; A model system for studying development, leading to better
understanding of human conditions.
Mus musculus - ANSWER✔✔-House mouse; sacrificed for humans, mammalian model organism
Gregor Mendel - ANSWER✔✔-Published his studies using pea plants in 1866, studies were rediscovered
in 1900, Revealed the principles of heredity, founder of modern genetics
Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri - ANSWER✔✔-showed that heredity (gene) is located on
chromosomes in 1902
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