In what ways can Ciona be thought of as a good model organism for studying human

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In what ways can Ciona be thought of as a good model organism for studying humans?

Required.Select one to five answers.
1.Small, common, rapidly-proliferating organisms make good models for practical laboratory study.

2.This species is non-native to Puget Sound waters, so removing some individuals from the shoreline is not considered damaging to the larger ecosystem.

3.All Ciona have sperm and eggs, so they are good model systems for all species that reproduce.

4.Chordates like Ciona are ancestral relatives to the vertabrates (a class that includes primates) so Ciona could be used to study neural chord development and/or evolution.

5.Chordates are filter feeders, so they might be a good model system for stomach feeders like the not-closely-related frog or fruit fly species.

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2.This species is non-native to Puget Sound waters, so removing some individuals from the shoreline is not considered damaging to the larger ecosystem.

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