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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Chapters: Model organism, Zebrafish, Guinea pig, Lambda phage, Rice, Brown rat, Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabditis elegans, Mycoplasma genitalium, African clawed frog, Tetrahymena, Sea urchin, Tobacco mosaic virus, Xenopus, Drosophila melanogaster, Medicago, Maize, House mouse, Dictyostelium discoideum, Sinorhizobium meliloti, Laboratory rat, History of model organisms, Zebra Finch, Axolotl, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Common Frog, Populus trichocarpa, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Sebright, Mimulus, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Iberian Ribbed Newt, Brachypodium distachyon, Ossabaw Island Hog, Planarian, Animal model, Severe combined immunodeficiency, Neurospora crassa, Pichia pastoris, Physcomitrella patens, Vibrio fischeri, Northern Leopard Frog, Macrostomum lignano, BALB/c, California sea hare, Ciona intestinalis, Medicago truncatula, History of research on Caenorhabditis elegans, Pseudomonas phage 6, Mimulus guttatus, Tammar Wallaby, Daphnia pulex, Oryzias latipes, Gray Short-tailed Opossum, Japanese Fire Belly Newt, NOD mice, Aspergillus nidulans, Ovariectomized rat, 29 phage, Schoenoplectus americanus, Western clawed frog, Thermus thermophilus, Symsagittifera roscoffensis, Linanthus parryae, Ob/ob mouse, Crithidia fasciculata, Drosophila simulans, Monorhaphididae, Gnotobiotic animal, C57BL/6, Brattleboro rat, Germ-free animal, Thalassiosira pseudonana. Excerpt: Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima. As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East and South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the West Indies. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn). Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important gra...
