Genetics With Drosophila Flies Josh Derrall Lab Group: Dana Gilkes James Lupo Olivia Giannola December 4‚ 2012 Prof. Hunter Introduction Genetics is a topic that has been studied for hundreds of years. One of the most notable geneticists was Gregor Mendel. Mendel studied basic inheritance patterns and gene expression using pea plants. Mendel determined that the offspring of two parents contains one gene from each parent (McKusick 1983). However‚ since Mendels discoveries
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Heeneman Bio 152-100 February 27‚ 2013 Fruit Fly Lab Data from my group: Vestigial winged offspring: 0 Wild Type winged offspring: 10 Data from class: Vestigial winged offspring: 42 Wild Type winged offspring: 237 Data from all classes: Vestigial winged offspring: 345 Wild Type winged offspring: 1‚297 The hypothesis of the fruit fly mating experiment was that when placing homozygous recessive virgin female fruit flies in a mating tube with two homozygous
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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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Process of Science 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 3 Sepia eyes 1 2 (to the nearest ten-thousandth) Questions 1. Why is it important to remove the adults in the parental generation? It is important to keep the generations separate so that you know you are crossing only F1 flies. 2. What generation will their offspring be? The new offspring
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begin the lab‚ he/she must make a prediction about what gene the trait one are analyzing is on. The trait can either be sex-linked‚ or autosomal. To begin the lab‚ one must acquire a sample of flies to cross. These flies should be placed in a tube with an easily removable foam stopper. Use the flynap to knock out the fruit flies‚ and pour them out of the tube into a petri dish. Then place the petri dish on a stereomicroscope‚ and begin using a paintbrush to sort the flies by gender. Male flies have sex
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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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Lab Report: Flowers‚ Fruits‚ and Seeds Part 1: Flowers Directions: Answer the questions below using the picture of the Gladiolus‚ or Lily flower‚ below. 1. How many petals does this flower have? 6 2. How many stamens does this flower have? 5 3. How many stigmas does this flower have? 1 4. Is this the flower of a monocot or a dicot? Monocot 5. Explain your answer for question #4. This flower has petals multiple of 3. The petals also seem to have parallel veins. 6. Is this flower perfect
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Lab Report: Flowers‚ Fruits‚ and Seeds Part 1: Flowers Directions: Answer the questions below using the picture of the Gladiolus‚ or Lily flower‚ below. 1. How many petals does this flower have? From this point of view‚ I can see 10 colorful petals. 2. 3. How many stamens does this flower have? I see about 3. 4. 5. How many stigmas does this flower have? I can see about 6 or 7 stigmas. 6. 7. Is this the flower of a monocot or a dicot? A monocot. 8. 9. Explain your answer for question
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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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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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