11/12/1998 The first multicellular genome is sequenced
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A brief introduction to C. elegans
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Embryonic development of C. elegans
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Party with c elegans
The international scientific team published the first whole genetic sequence of a multicellular organism. It was the nematode (roundworm) Caenorhabditis elegans, which is used as a model organism in many fields of biology. The genome had about 100 million base pairs (human genome has about three billion base pairs).