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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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are an excellent specimen for research in genetics. Many reasons are that they have a rapid reproduction rate‚ easy to care compared other animals and less expensive. Researchers have determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly the entire 120 megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome (Cite). Drosophila has a simple genetic arrangement of only four chromosomes which contains three autosomes and one sex chromosome according to(--) and because of this
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Model organisms are species that are studied to understand the biology of other organisms‚ usually humans. Fruit flies share 75% of the genes that cause certain diseases with humans. Therefore scientists can learn about human genetics by studying fruit fly genetics. This falls under the bigger principle of understanding the basic biology that all organisms have in common. Common fruit flies like Drosophila are useful when studying genetics for several reasons‚ such as their small size that makes
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zoologist and geneticist named Thomas Hunt Morgan is known for his research with fruit fly. Thomas Morgan was born on September 15‚1866 in Lexington‚ Kentucky. In 1886‚ he received his B.S. degree at the University of Kentucky. In 1910‚ Morgan saw that one male fly had a distinct difference about it. Instead of normal red eyes‚ this fly had white eyes (Allen). He wanted to test the breeding of Drosophila in fruit flies to understand the transmission of genetic traits through their generations. In order
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POPULATION GENETICS (FRUITFLY) NAME: Christopher N. Anah CLASS: BIOL 2108L INSTRUCTOR: DR. JAMES BATTEY OVERVIEW: In this lab the Drosophila melanogaster fly species were used to do genetic test crosses. Students were taught how to manipulate phenotypes‚ collect data from F1 through the F4 generations‚ and analyze the results.INTRODUCTION: The basic principles of genetics are very often shared by a vast array of organisms. For that reason‚ it is usually only necessary to study the genetic
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Question: If I cross a female apterous fly with a male wild fly‚ what would the offspring look like? Hypothesis: If I cross a female apterous fly with a male wild fly‚ then the offspring will be a 50% chance of a apterous fly or 50% chance of a wild fly. If I cross a female apterous fly with a male wild fly‚ then the offspring will be a 100% wild fly. Supporting Evidence for Hypothesis: Apterous flies have no wings‚ and are a recessive gene‚ while wild flies have wings and are a dominant gene‚ (TT
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Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly‚ about 3mm in length‚ and it is the insect that flies around spoiled fruit. A model organism has these traits: short life cycles and rapid development‚ small average size‚ big population‚ and fast reproduction (NCBI). Drosophila melanogaster meet all of the criteria for being a model organism. Also‚ fruit flies were used because they are very easy to handle and they require minimal resources to survive‚ as opposed to other organisms that might need more food
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stimulus that helps it search for the food (Stocker et al. 2007). There are flies such as dragon‚ house flies and various other flies in diptera order. Flies are attracted to sugar and seem to have certain neurons that activate upon encountering the sugary content. The compounds contained sugars‚ salts‚ bitter food‚ and certain other Molecules are detected by gustatory neurons‚ which are widely distributed in the body of the fly (Stocker et al. 2007 ). Neurons that influence feeding behavior are present
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Kayla Berezne Mrs. Cohen Honors Biology 24 March 2013 Genetic Predictions in the Fruit Fly The Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly with a very short life cycle. They can be winged or wingless‚ and have red eyes or white eyes. The different options are called alleles. Alleles are the variants of a specific gene‚ and one is received from each parent on each chromosome. (“What Are Dominant and Recessive?”). It was chosen to use winged females and wingless males to predict the offspring in this
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life traits in fruit flies. The scientists‚ Seema Sisodia‚ Puja Verma and Bashisth Narayan Sing explain there research in “The Effect of Diet Quality and Associated Metabolic Changes in Adult Stress Response and Life-History Traits in Drosophila Ananassae” The D. ananassae used in the experiment are flies collected from fruit and vegetable india in October 2010. The purpose of the study was to observe the role of diet during stress response at cellular and metabolic levels in fruit flies. Before the
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