{"id":8435,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/model_systems\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:40","slug":"model_systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/model_systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Model systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simplified representations of more complex systems, often used to isolate and highlight specific properties of organization. &nbsp;In biology, a model system is a particular animal species that is accessible to experimental manipulation in order to supply answers to about biological processes and mechanisms. &nbsp;So, for example, the fruit fly has become the model system <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">par excellence<\/span>&nbsp;in various branches of genetics. &nbsp;As such, the fruit fly fulfils at least two criteria as a model system: it has a short life cycle and it is relatively easy to subject to genetic manipulation. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biology\">Biology<\/a>, <a href=\"complex_system\">Complex system<\/a>, <a href=\"description\">Description<\/a>, Genetics, <a href=\"mechanism\">Mechanism<\/a>, <a href=\"model\">Model<\/a>, <a href=\"model_representation\">Model representation<\/a>, <a href=\"process\">Process<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simplified representations of more complex systems, often used to isolate and highlight specific properties of organization. &nbsp;In biology, a model system is a particular animal species that is accessible to experimental manipulation in order to supply answers to about biological processes and mechanisms. &nbsp;So, for example, the fruit fly has become the model system par &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/model_systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Model systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}