Caenorhabditis elegans is extremely useful as an experimental model system due to all of the following EXCEPT ________

A) adults contain a small, fixed number of cells
B) it is highly variable in size and shape making it good for evo-devo studies
C) its genetics are well known
D) its genome has been sequenced


Answer: B

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