Neurospora (a type of bread mold) is widely used as a model organism in genetic studies.
One key reason is that meiotic products (ascospores) are arranged linearly in ordered tetrads within the ascus, making it easy to study genetic recombination and chromosome mapping.
It also has a short life cycle (~10 days) and can be easily grown in the lab, but the ordered tetrads arrangement is the main reason for its use in genetics.
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