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Evolution
is at the heart of modern biological thought. One tenant of
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evolution
is that all species evolved from some other species and all
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life evolved
from some common ancestors. This
means that all
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organisms
are related and therefore similar.
In general our goal as
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scientists
is to understand better the human condition. However, for
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the
most part our study of humans is rather limited. The study of other
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organisms
is generally carried out and our findings extrapolated to
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humans. Almost everything that we know about
biochemistry was
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first
discovered in bacteria and yeast. At
the same time we can’t know
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everything
from these simple organisms. It is
important to pick the
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right
model system; the choice being dependent on the question
asked.
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