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Associate Professor Peter Dearden conducts a lot of his research using honey bees as a model organism. Model organisms are non-human species used by scientists to better understand particular biological research questions.
Associate Professor Peter Dearden conducts a lot of his research using honey bees as a model organism. Model organisms are non-human species used by scientists to better understand particular biological research questions.