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 flies were the first organisms to be used for genetic analysis
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INTRODUCTION Worldwide postharvest fruit and vegetables losses are as high as 30 to 40% and even much higher in some developing countries. Reducing postharvest losses is very important; ensuring that sufficient food‚ both in quantity and in quality is available to every inhabitant in our planet. Proper postharvest processing and handling is an important part of modern agricultural production. Postharvest processes include the integrated functions of harvesting‚ cleaning‚ grading‚ cooling‚ storing
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British Shorthair vs Dragon Li Cats are amazing animals and pets. They are domestic animals belonging to different species like British Shorthair “my cat Max” and Dragon Li “my cousin’s cat Tiger”. The cat belongs to the feline family‚ and it is one of the most popular pets. You may think that you really know everything about cats and all are similar. In fact‚ there are several similarities‚ but at the same time they are different and each one has his personality. In the beginning‚ we will discuss
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heat. (What Attracts Gnats?) For example‚ soccer games ending late in the evening‚ and sweat pouring from everybody gnats tend to swarm up around most of the people out on the field. Gnats and fruit flies are very similar. The only difference between the two‚ is that gnats form big groups outdoors‚ while fruit flies are mostly found indoors. Either way they’re living‚ they’re both extremely annoying. There are many different types of gnats‚ which are Fungus Gnats‚ Drain Flies‚ Midges‚ Sand Flies
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The Fifty-First Dragon by Heywood Broun is an amazing book about courage‚ and belief. The main character is sent to fight dragons‚ learns an extremely important lesson about himself‚ and then get’s killed by his 51st dragon. Broun uses great phrasing within the story‚ and brings the old world of dragons to life for an exciting tale great for any age. The protagonist of our story is Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy‚ a young man who attends an academy for training knights‚ yet lacks courage extremely. The
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Text typology – Genesis The main function of the text is expressive. The text is an extract from the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. The author is a writer‚ journalist and poet‚ whose breadth of experience comes across in this text. The field of discourse is the narrative genre of the novel. The mode of discourse is “written to express views and feelings in an artistic way”‚ which Katarina Reiss refers to as “creative composition” where the sender is at the forefront
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teachers often enjoyed sharing fantasy stories‚ either passed down generations or creatively coming up with their own‚ filled with imaginations. “The Fifty-first Dragon” by Heywood Broun takes a closer look at a school’s headmaster who shares the magic word‚“Rumplestilz.” Through this magic word‚ his student miraculously starts slaying dragons: one‚ ten‚ twenty‚ until he reaches fifty. Gawaine Le Coeur-Hardy‚ the main protagonist of the Knight School‚
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In Disney’s film “How to Train a Dragon” begins with hiccup a weak young boy accepting the fact that his father will never proud to have a son like him. Hiccup has a dramatic change of heart after meeting an unlikely allie that inevitably becomes his best friend and together they save the island of Berk. Just like in many of Disney’s films Hiccup is different from the rest of his people‚ an unlikely hero‚ an underdog‚ who ends up saving his village from total ruin as well as gains a lifetime friend
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McGinnis English 111 - Mon/Wed 2 September 2013 Komodo Dragons and Mojave Rattlesnakes Both being of the reptilian phylum‚ and being the most dominant of that class in their area‚ the Komodo Dragon and Mojave Rattlesnake have seemingly nothing in common other than their physical scaliness. However‚ the similarities between these two animals go much further than mere appearance. Despite their positions on opposites sides of the globe‚ the Komodo Dragon and Mojave Rattlesnake share similar living environments
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Drosophila melanogaster: Mutant Fruit Flies Jessica E. Phillips Genetics 3301 April 13‚ 2012 Introduction: Drosophila melanogaster better known as the fruit fly can be found near rotting fruits‚ vegetables‚ or anywhere where there is food that has rotted and or fermented. (Potter‚ 2010) D. melanogaster has four different stages in its life cycle. The first stage of D. melanogaster is the egg which can last for about one day; then turns into a larva. The larva stage last for about 7-8 days
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