In article <3A3AD2D8.89D52207 at mediaone.net>,
George Hammond <ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote:
> Dear Bionet:
> I am a Physicist not a Biologist. I have a simple
> question about asexual plants.
>[...]
It's a common practice in biology to use genetically identical
organisms (and not only in plants) in an experiment to avoid genetic
variation as a confounding factor. For example, most lab strains of
mice are inbred strains that are gentically identical to one another
(within a strain).
Nick
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