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work and are applicable to humans. Other animals, such as rabbits, monkeys, and pigs, are also good animal models because of their similar physiological and anatomical features allow them to have a good construct validity and face validity (Crawley, 2012). Mice are similar to humans, small, and the least expensive to use for research. These three reasons are why mice are chosen as a model organism for Autism. Ultimately, the mice tend to score high and fit the validity, physiological, and anatomical features better for studying autism. Mice are becoming transgenic. The genetic material from a disease or phenomena can transfer into a mice’s DNA, and this is how mice are transgenic (Crawley, 2012). This property of mice allows there to be a

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