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that same professor...
"You can easily grow E. coli in a small flask in your lab for 10 cents; in contrast, elephants as an experimental organism take up a lot of space and are rather expensive to maintain as a breeding colony.
Mice...cost $0.25-$0.50 per animal a day...The species we often are most interested in learning about, humans, are not amenable to directed breeding or experimental genetic manipulations and are even more expensive than mice."
"You can easily grow E. coli in a small flask in your lab for 10 cents; in contrast, elephants as an experimental organism take up a lot of space and are rather expensive to maintain as a breeding colony.
Mice...cost $0.25-$0.50 per animal a day...The species we often are most interested in learning about, humans, are not amenable to directed breeding or experimental genetic manipulations and are even more expensive than mice."