Vortrag

A transparent window into biology: a primer on Caenorhabditis Elegans

My presentation is divided into six parts

I will start to introduce you to the advantages of c. Elegans as a model organism

then i will show you how the ability of self- and cross-fertilization facilitate genetic work

Afterwards I will tell you something about common used methods and give you an insight into Research fields

I will also talk about limits and disadvantages

And in the end i will summarize the most important points

C. elegans is a small organism with a length of only 1 mm. So a single petri dish can hold about ten thousand worms