Natural and Sexual Selection of Vestigial and Wild Type Drosophila melanogaster Abstract In this experiment‚ vestigial flies as well as wild type flies were used to create some diversity as well as test one of our hypotheses. Our hypotheses are as follows; 1) The wild type flies will have a greater relative fitness compared to the vestigial flies based on only sexual selection. The wild type has a relative fitness of 1 since it has fully functional wings. Vestigial Winged flies are not as sexually
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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 the eye color‚ which is resulted by grouping of genes
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Effects of Alcohol on Drosophila Behavior Your Name Bio1100 Instructor: Dr. Gary Bulla Section 6 11/14/02 Notes: Title should be descriptive but concise‚ containing some key words Title page should include only the information shown here Use no smaller than 12 pt font Capitalize words in title (except “of”‚ “the”‚ “in”‚ ……..) ABSTRACT (Capitalized with bold face‚ underline or all caps) A simple summary of the important points of the paper. Usually a 1-2 paragraphs. It includes the
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Drosophila Melanogaster Introduction Drosophila mature through complete metamorphosis‚ as do all members of the order Diptera. [5] Diptera are commonly known as (true: having two wings) flies and include many familiar insects such as mosquitoes‚ black flies‚ midges‚ fruit flies‚ and house flies. [3] Drosophila melanogaster are most commonly known as fruit flies and are used in many genetic studies for a few simple reasons; they are small and easily handled‚ they have a short life cycle
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Wrinkled and black Mutations in Drosophila melanogaster Abstract Homozygous Wrinkled virgin females and homozygous black male Drosophila melanogaster‚ were crossed. Mutations were located on chromosome two and three respectively. The F1 generation‚ all Wrinkled and black‚ was inbred yielding and F2 generation. A phenotypic ratio of 9:3:3:1 was hypothesized with wrinkled wings and wild type body: wrinkled wings and black body: wild type wings and body wing: wild type wings and black body correspondingly
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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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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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FEEDING HABITS OF DROSOPHILA MUTANTS Name: Joshua Suidgeest Student ID: U3081023 Tutorial Day and Time: Friday’s at 14:30 (until 17:30) Tutor’s Name: Sandy I declare that the written work presented in this report is my own work. Abstract As a pre-introduction to this lab report as a whole‚ this experiment was carried out to answer some questions that may come to mind when “Drosophila” and “Inheritance” are put in the same sentence. The Drosophila insect is a species of
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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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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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