drosophila?

Answer 1

hi there...

Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly, a little insect about 3mm long, of the kind that accumulates around spoiled fruit.

It is also one of the most valuable of organisms in biological research, particularly in genetics and developmental biology.

Drosophila has been used as a model organism for research for almost a century, and today, several thousand scientists are working on many different aspects of the fruit fly.

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Answer 2

Drosophila is the genus name for the fruitfly family. The common laboratory fruitfly is Drosophila melanogaster, but there are several more species of Drosophila. Favored by experimental geneticists because their life cycle is very short (they only live about two weeks), they produce abundant offspring, and many of the mutations that occur in their genomic DNA lead to obvious, "relatively" easy to detect changes in body structure or behaviors. More recently, it has even been found that a large number of the gene mutations that lead to alterations in the physiology of mammals have a great many counterparts in Drosophila, ranging from movement disorders to learning disorders to control of body part development.

Answer 3

This is a greek word meaning "dew lover". It is the name given to the common fruitfly, one of the few species that have had their complete genome fully sequenced, along with humans, chimps, mice, E. Coli, and yeast

Answer 4

drosophila melanogaster is a very common fruitfly.

Answer 5

Fruit flies! They are commonly used in genetics experiments because of their noticeable phenotypic differences (body shape/color, singed hairs, etc)that can be seen with the naked eye or a microscope.

Answer 6

i hate them. even dissecting out their brians under microscope doesn't leave me feeling vindicated anymore.
i will feed them to my fish if i catch one around the house though. :-D