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What is a model organism? How is Arabidopsis a good model? Please explain in detail.

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A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studies to understand particular biological phenomena with such expectations that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

Arabidopsis widely chosen as a good model organism because of its usefulness in genetic experiments as well as because of features such as shirt generation time, small size which limits the requirements of growth facilities, produces many small seeds, has small genome size, onky requires light, air, water and a few minerals to complete its life cycle.