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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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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are several organisms used or model organisms used for humans‚ mice‚ frogs‚ roundworm‚ chicks‚ fish‚ and fruit flies. All of these 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
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frustrated fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster Ankit Sharma April 8‚ 2013 BIO 534 Introduction The fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster show addiction-like behavior towards alcohol where the flies seem to be physiologically dependent on (Atkinson et. al.‚ 2012). The flies can thus exhibit a cognitive dependence where such behavior is stored in memory and same behavior is also shown in the future. This addiction is linked to NPY neuropeptide levels which can be found in Drosophila where these neuropeptides
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The Drosophila melanogaster In this experiment‚ the species Drosophila melanogaster‚ the common fruit fly‚ was studied to examine the processes of natural selection and genetic drift in the laboratory. The fruit fly has a sex linked gene determining eye colour. Located on the X chromosome‚ a fruit fly can exhibit the phenotype white eye (homozygous recessive)‚ or red eyed wild-type (dominant). Males of the species are XY‚ and as such only carry one eye colour determining X chromosome. Females
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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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Taste discrimination in young and old Drosophila melanogaster Introduction The ability to discriminate taste is critical for the survival and nutrition of an organism (Sellier et al.‚ 2010‚ Gordesky-Gold et al.‚ 2008). Many animals rely on their taste organs to detect and discriminate various types of taste such as sweet or bitter (Weiss et al.‚ 2011). When these organs come in contact with a food source‚ signals are sent to taste receptor cells. The activation of certain taste receptor cells by
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Effects of Organic Food on Drosophila Melanogaster A new study has shown that fruit flies that lived on organic foods tended to be healthier than those that lived on conventional foods. The two things that researchers based their conclusions for health on were fertility and longevity. These two things are two important aspects to a fly’s life. On both of these tests‚ the flies that were fed organic food performed better than the flies that were fed conventional food. They survived for a longer
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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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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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