Why has C. elegans proven to be a useful model for understanding apoptosis?
A) The animal has as many genes as complex organisms, but finding those responsible is easier than in a more complex organism.
B) The nematode undergoes a fixed and easy-to-visualize number of apoptotic events during its normal development.
C) This plant has a long-studied aging mechanism that has made understanding its death just a last stage.
D) While the organism ages, its cells die progressively until the whole organism is dead.
E) All of its genes are constantly being expressed so all of its proteins are available from each cell.
Discovery of apoptosis in the adrenal cortex by Kerr, Wyllie, and Currie
The Solar Model
Model of spliceosome-mediated splicing of pre-mRNA
Schematic of a mitochondrion and Computer model generated from electron tomograms of a mitochondrion
Hepatic Acinus Model of Liver Function
Normal white blood cell and a white blood cell undergoing apoptosis