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For what Brenner planned was to use the worm to discover how genes made bodies and then behaviour. And this was in 1965, before anyone had found and analysed a single gene for anything. C .Elegans is about the most unremarkable nematode known to man. There must be others, even less obvious, lurking undiscovered in the crannies of the world since nematodes are overwhelmingly the most numerous animals on earth. If a Martian biologist were to collect, at random, five million animals from the earth, sampling ev
Yet elegans lives in tranquil obscurity underground, parasitising nothing, eating only bacteria and slime moulds.
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