Introduction Drosophila melanogaster is a species of Fly (the taxonomic order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is known generally as the common fruit fly or vinegar fly. Starting with Charles W. Woodworth’s proposal of the use of this species as a model organism‚ D. melanogaster continues to be widely used for biological research in studies of genetics‚ physiology‚ microbial pathogenesis and life history evolution. It is typically used because it is an animal species that is
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The Frequency of Mutations among Second Generation Drosophila melanogaster INTRODUCTION This experiment involved observing and comparing the relative frequencies of inherited dominant and recessive genes in a population using the common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In this experiment‚ we demonstrate how dominant genes are selected over recessive genes (Mendel’s Law of Independent Assortment). Hypothesis: If we cross two heterozygous individuals‚ our observed offspring in the second
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Investigation | May 28 2013 | Drosophila melanogaster lab experiment Question: How do the dominant or recessive genes in particular traits in a cross between a male and female Drosophila determine the traits of its offspring? Aim: to establish whether characteristics produced from the offspring of a drosophila cross are recessive or dominant traits. Hypothesis: If certain phenotypes are expressed in the offspring from the cross of certain Drosophila‚ then the determination or justification
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The purpose of the experiment that has been conducted is to breed Drosophila melanogaster for specific traits. We used a dihybrid cross where the traits were sex linked. The cross is considered dihybrid due to the fact that we are crossing two different traits. The traits used for this dihybrid cross experiment are white eyes (w) and vestigial wings (vg). The white eyes are the sex linked trait. These traits were taken and crossed with wild type D. melanogaster. The experiment that we ran
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Lab#3 Mendelian Inheritance in Drosophila Lab Report 1 In this experiment we are investigating the strength of the ratios discovered by Gregor Mendel in both the monohybrid and dihybrid cross. The ability to test these ratios stems from the use of Mendel’s law of segregation which states that during meiosis allele pairs will separate in gametes so one of each allele is present in a gamete. (Garey‚ et al‚pg 8-13) These single alleles are then combined with the other parental gamete forming
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organisms ate much smaller and easier to care for and observe. A major advantage to using these model organisms are their ability to rapidly develop off spring often times in much larger numbers than a human. Some organisms produce The fruit fly‚ drosophila melanogaster‚ is one of the smallest model organisms used to provide insight to the genetic development of humans. Development biologists won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for the genetic studies and later principles they discovered with fruit flies that
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mammals is also present in other animals‚ specifically in Drosophila‚ and if so‚ to try to understand the neural pathways that are involved in the process of memory acquisition and consolidation‚ and understanding how the information acquired from the learning experience is stored and protected during the period of delay. In other words‚ the researchers are trying to investigate the mechanisms of long-term memory consolidation in Drosophila through a courtship memory paradigm so as to determine whether
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initially entered labs 100 years ago. Thomas Hunt Morgan‚ who lived from 1866 to 1945‚ was the founder of drosophila genetics. Thomas preformed his research in Morgan lab at the Columbia University in 1910. Here was when they found a famous mutation‚ know as the white-eyed fly. Quite an accomplishment was this discovery‚ but the end of the 1980’s there were 3‚000+-recorded mutations. Now drosophila is very popular; so popular‚ it would be almost impossible to list the number of things that are being
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Christian Chou Mrs. McCarron 12/10/14 A.P Biology Drosophila melanogaster Genetics Introduction: The common fruit fly‚ scientifically named Drosophila melanogaster‚ is used by many in genetic studies. Because they can be easily cultured‚ have a relatively short generation time‚ and are prolific breeders‚ fruit flies are often very popular in genetic investigations. Furthermore‚ mutations and sex are easy to visualize among the fruit flies. Male fruit flies have a smaller abdomen than their female counterparts
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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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