A researcher needs to select a model organism to use when testing a new drug tre

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A researcher needs to select a model organism to use when testing a new drug treatment for human pancreatic cancer. Which of the following would be an inappropriate model organism to use and why?

A researcher needs to select a model organism to use when testing a new drug treatment for human pancreatic cancer. Which of the following would be an inappropriate model organism to use and why?

- dog, because it has systems that are similar to a human's - mouse, because it reproduces so quickly - rat, because it has very little genetic diversity - chimpanzee, because it so closely related to human - pigeon, because it is anatomically different from human

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Pigeon is the most inappropriate subject as human belongs to class mammalia while pigeon belong to class aves thus is different from human both genetically and anatomically.

While chimpanzees will be most preferable choise due to its close genetic relationship with humans

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