Life in the lab, are model organisms an asset or impediment to biology? (Ep 87)
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Working on Model Organisms Is a Big Conceptual Challenge, Right?
There seems to be this tacit assumption that the traits that model organisms are informative about, I think they're mostly suborganismal. Why do we expect that the process that happens in Drosophila is the same that happens in all other flies when so much else about the organism at the superorganism level is really, really different? What it means to be a mosquito is completely different above the level of organism,. how it lives its life, its behavior, the timing of all of its activities. So totally different than a fly. In answering this question, how do we even think about organisms as an integrated whole where these different levels of organizations are modeled at multiple levels?"
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