Explanation:
Genetically altered mice have served to recapitulate human diseases, including cancer, glaucoma, heart disease, and diabetes. However, despite their genetic similarity to humans, mouse models are criticized for their failure to accurately mimic human disease phenotypes.
Why it's bad to use mice as an experiment:
The use of mice as model organisms to study human biology is predicated on the genetic and physiological similarities between the species. Mice are less reliable as models of human disease, however, because the networks linking genes to disease are likely to differ between the two species.
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