ELi5: Rats seem to be the gold standard for behavioral lab experiments – why? Other than quantity, what makes rats good test subjects in relation to humans?
In: Biology
So much research has been done with them that you don’t need to worry about other variables and can just focus on certain things. Like if you wanted to see how certain genes affect smell in rodents you have a huge amount of previous studies showing good experimental setups so you don’t have to take as much of a time figuring out what to do.
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