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Mice are omnivores and eat a variety of foods preferring seeds, grains and nuts. They require only about l/10 ounce of food each day and can live without access to fresh water if the solid food they eat is somewhat moist.
A knockout mouse (left) that is a model for obesity, compared with a normal mouse. There are several thousand different strains of knockout mice. Many mouse models are named after the gene that has been inactivated.n some instances, the gene may serve a different function in adults than in developing embryos. Knocking out a gene also may fail to produce an observable change in a mouse or may even produce different characteristics from those observed in humans in which the same gene is inactivated.