Model organisms are used to test hypotheses
A) that are likely to apply only to the model organism.
B) that are potentially too dangerous to perform on human subjects.
C) only after human subjects have been tested.
D) that have results that are always applicable to humans.

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Model organisms are often used in research because they allow scientists to study biological processes in a controlled environment, especially when experiments may be too risky or unethical to perform on humans.

Model Organisms Are Used to Test Hypotheses