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13 years ago
One major advantage of using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for studies of plant form and function is its   

A) high tolerance to stress.
B) fast generation time.
C) high mutation rate.
D) large seeds.
E) exceptionally large genome.
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13 years ago
I would say B) fast generation time. It has a small genome, produces a lot of small seeds, stress tolerance doesn't really matter in lab settings, and I've read that it can be easily mutated but I don't know if it has an exceptionally high mutation rate.
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