On a recent weekday morning at the John Monash Science School , on Monash University's Clayton campus, the Year 10s don their white lab coats, open their workbooks, and begin studying remarkable and very newly-hatched fish embryos through their microscopes. The fish are zebrafish, a type of minnow beloved in science research. Zebrafish eggs fertilise and develop outside the mother's body, making them an ideal model organism for studying early development. They're also transparent, share about 70 % of their genes with humans, have an abundance of stem cells, and can regenerate quickly.

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