# OnCo record model-organism (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/model-organism/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "model-organism" ;
  schema:name "Model organism"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "model organisms"@en, "mouse model"@en, "mouse models"@en, "mice"@en, "in mice"@en, "murine"@en, "animal model"@en, "xenograft"@en, "xenografts"@en, "patient-derived xenograft"@en, "patient-derived xenografts"@en, "PDX"@en, "genetically engineered mouse"@en, "GEMM"@en, "GEMMs"@en, "humanised mice"@en, "humanized mice"@en, "zebrafish"@en, "fruit fly"@en, "Drosophila"@en, "yeast"@en, "C. elegans"@en ;
  schema:description "A species studied in the lab to understand biology that is shared with humans: mice above all, plus zebrafish, flies, worms and yeast. Mice carrying human tumours are the standard test bed for cancer drugs, and a notoriously imperfect one."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/model-organism/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_organism> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q213907> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_organism> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/preclinical/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/in-vitro-in-vivo/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cell-line/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/organoid/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/pdx-models/> .