Why are white mice are tested in laboratories instead of other colored mice?

Question

I don't need explainations...I just want to know why they test only white mice.

I don't need explainations...I just want to know why they test only white mice.

EDIT: "Miss Information", no offence, but that's random jibberish of what species of white mouse they test, not the reason why they test it. Currently, all I can believe is that white mice are closely related to humans[but white mice are better than humans].

Most likely, there might be no best answers.

Answer 1

Because they want test subjects that are genetically nearly identical, so that differences between outcomes will be caused only by the experiment, not because of differences in the mice themselves. White mice are the most homogeneous group of mice that they have.

Answer 2

how am supposed to answer your question without explaining?

well, even though they look the same there are many different types of white mice used in research: ICR, BALB/c, Swiss Webster, CD-1 are the white mice most commonly used. why? their genetic backgrounds make their use more approriate than using a different mouse....say, a black mouse (the most commonly used black mouse is C57BL/6--which is the background strain used for transgenic mice); i.e. certain mice are used for toxicology versus cardiovascular versus diabetes studies, and et cetera...sometimes these mice happen to be white.

furthermore NOT all white mice are "homogenous" for example, NMRI is an OUTBRED white mouse...meaning this colony is HETEROGENOUS--indivual animal animals are not closely related.

Answer 3

they dont want the brown and grey mice to cry racism.

Answer 4

Jesse Jackson will bring a lawsuit against them, that's why