*Mice are often mistakenly identified as [[rat]]s. a serious [[agriculture|agricultural]] pest, damaging growing crops and stealing stored grain.
*Again, mice are often blamed as a [[disease vector]] for certain diseases including [[bubonic plague]] better attributed to [[rats]].
*The laboratory mouse is widely used as an experimental organism in biomedical research. There are many specialised breeds, such as the nude mouse, a hairless [[mutant]] strain used in [[cancer]] research and the Onken mouse, a mouse bred to have cancerous cells from birth. The [[genome]] of the mouse has been sequenced and contains 655 million base pairs and 47 000 [[gene]]s.{{fact}}
*Mice are commonly kept as pets, and are also bred as food items for other, carnivorous pet animals.