The model that is being studied is in a domestic pest that may be found throughout decaying food. The topic that is being examined is the Drosophila. When Drosophila is prepared for mating or hatching‚ they have a full lifecycle of about 20 days‚ thus are the models for relating sex-linked inheritance. Obviously it is not the breeding ways of the Drosophila that is being examined in this experiment‚ but the developing offspring‚ and their phenotypes. The phenotype is based on the wing shape and
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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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APPENDIX 5 - Writing Reports Report 1: Drosophila F1 Generation Report General Notes: This report is very much a practice run to get you used to this style of report writing‚ rather than simply filling in lab sheets. It should not be a long report (no longer than these notes‚ in fact). Scientific writing is not like writing essays in other genre. In many ways it is easier! There are three important rules to scientific writing and if you adhere to these‚ the rest is quite easy: 1. Sentences
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Morgan Kimmerle Monday Lab Dr. McCorkell Abstract The purpose of this study was to cross and analyze the reciprocal crosses of wild flies and mutant flies. In this lab Drosophila melanogaster commonly known as fruit flies were used to understand some important genetic principles that were once proposed by Gregor Mendel. Mutant traits can be autosomal dominant‚ autosomal recessive traits‚ or even sex-linked dominant and sex-linked recessive. F1 and F2 generations were obtained by performing
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INTRODUCTION TO DROSOPHILA GENETICS DROSOPHILA CULTURE We will study basic principles of Mendelian inheritance with the use of the fruit fly‚ Drosophila melanogaster [the name means “black-bodied fruit-lover”]. Drosophila was one of the first organisms to be studied genetically: its small size‚ short life cycle (10 ~14 days at 25oC)‚ high reproductive rate (an adult female can lay 400-500 eggs in 10 days)‚ and ease of culture and genetic manipulation have made it perhaps the best understood animal
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How did the Drosophilia melanogaster impact Genetics? Thomas Hunt Morgan used Drosophila melanogaster for studying heredity. Morgan used the Drosophila melanogaster‚ known as the fruit fly‚ because it feeds on decaying fruit. It is small‚ about 3 mm long‚ and easy to raise in the laboratory; a thousand can be collected in a one-quart glass milk bottle. Moreover‚ it is fertile all year long and very prolific‚ producing a new generation every twelve days‚ or thirty generations per year. Not only
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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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Fly Lab Shannon Ladd Introduction: Famers and herders have been selectively breeding their plans and animals to produce more useful hybrids for thousands of years. It was somewhat of a hit or miss process since the actual mechanisms governing inheritance were unknown. Knowledge of these genetic mechanisms finally came as a result of careful laboratory breeding experiments carried out over the last century and a half. A contributing geneticist named Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)‚ discovered through
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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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The purpose of this experiment was to determine the F1 genotype of fruit fly traits using the phenotypic ratio of the F2 generation and to express these results of the unknown cross through a Chi-square model and Mendelian genetics. After the experiment‚ it was found that the parents held a heterozygous genotype through using the Chi-square model‚ and that the observed and expected values fall within the Chi-squared value which also falls into the p-value. The Chi-squared value was 5.64‚ the degrees
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