Fruit Fly Genetics Lab Kelly Hernandez 5/31/14 Drosophila melanogaster is a small‚ common fly found near unripe and rotted fruit. It has been in use for over a century to study genetics. Thomas Hunt Morgan was the best biologist studying Drosophila early in the 1900’s. Morgan was the first to discover sex-linkage and genetic recombination‚ which placed the small fly in the forefront of genetic research. Scientists have used Drosophila for many reasons. For one they are very easy to maintain‚
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The purpose of this experiment was to determine the F1 genotype of fruit fly traits using the phenotypic ratio of the F2 generation and to express these results of the unknown cross through a Chi-square model and Mendelian genetics. After the experiment‚ it was found that the parents held a heterozygous genotype through using the Chi-square model‚ and that the observed and expected values fall within the Chi-squared value which also falls into the p-value. The Chi-squared value was 5.64‚ the degrees
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AP Lab Seven Genetics of Organisms Dan Torres AP Biology Block 1 January 24‚ 2011 Introduction & Background Fruit flies have made a huge contribution towards knowledge about genetics‚ but for most people‚ they are just annoying insects that are attracted to their fruit. Their scientific name is Drosophila melanogaster‚ and to scientists‚ they have been a key to understand many principles of heredity including sex linked inheritance‚ epistasis‚ multiple alleles‚ and gene mapping. Fruit
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Drosophila melanogaster and how they respond to different stimuli and repellents‚ the research members decided to use mutant fruit flies‚ for this reason they lacked wings‚ making their manipulation simpler. In order to carry out this study it was necessary to first obtain an adequate number of flies to observe them throughout the weeks. The research members had the flies accompanied with larvae in stock vials‚ and later transferred these into a new vial containing a medium. After two weeks‚ when
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Genetics & Drosophila Melanogaster Lab Report Background: For two months‚ you will breed Drosphila melanogaster (fruit flies) and set up genetic crosses in order to determine the pattern of inheritance of certain mutant traits. The traits for which we will examine the pattern of inheritance are apterous (wingless)‚ vestigial (crippled wings) or white eyes. These are all mutant strains. The normal condition (winged and red eyes) is referred to as the wild type strain. Objective: The intial
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Fruit Fly Lab Alycia Fletcher Biology IB HL March 25th 2010 Fruit Fly Lab Introduction Genes can either be sex-linked or autosomal. If a gene appears mostly in one sex chances are the gene is sex-linked and if it appears frequently in both sexes it is most likely autosomal. Using Drosophila melanogaster‚ also known as the fruit fly‚ we will determine whether the gene is sex-linked or autosomal. Drosophila melanogasters have a relatively short life span and are an excellent organism
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ABSTRAT PAGE We had to pick a lab to do and we had four choices. We could pick one on the how genes are pasted down from generation to generation. FRUIT FLY PURPOSE: The purpose of this lab is to determine what genetics are dominant and which one is recession in the fruit fly and to see what genetics are past down from generation to generation. INTERODUCTUON: Mendel’s pea did and experiment that was
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AP Biology Lab Report Investigation 12: Fruit Fly Behavior Abstract: In the lab that was conducted‚ students were supposed to examine the tendencies of fruit flies‚ specifically Drosophila’s‚ to move toward or away from important stimuli that aide in their survival‚ also known as taxis. Another objective for this lab was to identify the patterns and relationships between environmental factors and a living organism. Students are supposed to use two bottles to allow the flies to choose which
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This lab was about corn genetics- dihybrid crosses. We had to analyze the corn kernels and later on see if our hypothesis was either supported or rejected. We wanted to discover what color and coat texture was dominant (purple and wrinkled‚ yellow and wrinkled‚ purple and smooth or yellow and smooth). I had not yet done labs like these ones‚ but I definitely had studied about monohybrid and dihybrid‚ crosses. Also‚ I have done many activities on this aspect and other labs that were similar but not
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What Can Fruit Flies Reveal about Inheritance? Lab Notebook Chi-Square test for Case 1 Phenotype Observed No. (o) Expected No. (e) (o-e) (o-e) 2 (o-e) 2 e Red eyes 31 33 2 4 0.1212 Sepia eyes 13 11 2 4 0.3636 2 (to the nearest ten-thousandth) 0.4848 Questions 1. Why is it important to remove the adults in the parental generation? To keep the tests accurate‚ it is important to separate the adults from the parental generation so you know you are only crossing the F-1 flies. 2
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