An anyone think of a ninth grade level science project involving fruit flies?

Question

please don't leave an answer saying that you don't have any ideas

Answer 1

You could do a project to see which 'fruit' attracts the most flies, and why? Also, you can do a comparison of fruit at different stages of development and/or decay to determine the flies role in sustaining and/or harming the fruits development (the earlier in the role of the fruit the flies gather, the more impact they thus might have on its subsequent development). Also, do fruit flies have a biological 'cap' on the number that will congregate around a fruit, so that they don't over-eat the resource, or are they like cows and sheep that will graze a land until it can no longer sustain them? These are just a number of ways you can look at the relationship of fruit flies to their environment. You can even look up their predators in the wild, and see if certain predators also have a relationship to the fruit trees as well; maybe their droppings act as a further nutrient to the trees, making them produce even more succulent fruit, which attracts more flies, which the predator eats more of, producing more droppings.

Answer 2

When I was going to college, I worked down the hall from Dr. Ed Lewis's fruit fly lab (you can google Ed Lewis fruit fly).
When you examine fruit flies, you first etherize them, then dump them into a plate on your dissecting microscope's stage.
Dr. Lewis etherized his flies only very lightly -- he said that more heavily knocking them out would permanently affect their behavior. So... during the examination, the flies would "wake up" and some would inevitably fly away.

Every year, some poor undergrad student would set an orange outside, and catch the fruit flies that inevitably gathered around it. He'd have to examine them, to determine how many were mutants (you know, descendants of escapees from labs like Dr. Lewis's).

You might give it a try -- examine your local "wild" population to see how many obvious mutants there are. Keep on the lookout for flies with odd eye colors or shapes, legs growing where the antenna should be, ...

Answer 3

I took Biology Honors as a freshman hence of certainty it replaced into the only one that freshman have been allowed to take. i replaced into incredibly form of compelled into that type. I incredibly have been given incredibly good grades in 8th grade in technologies(A+ for 3 quarters) so as that they figured i'd desire to excel in bio. i did now no longer merchandise hence of certainty i did now no longer be certain this out till later. So in certainty at my college it is going like this: Biology CP -10th grade Biology Honors - ninth & 10th Biology AP - 10th-12th. ninth graders at my college many times take technologies CP. Ehh. It replaced into ordinary apart from the checks. beneficial. real now, I take digital photograph & Intro To computers beneficial. i'm in French 2.

Answer 4

Clone them (idea from Princess Diaries Book "In Love") haha.

Sorry no real ideas..
oxox.

Answer 5

no sorry