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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We had to pick a lab to do and we had four choices. We could pick one on the how genes are pasted down from generation to generation. FRUIT FLY PURPOSE: The purpose of this lab is to determine what genetics are dominant and which one is recession in the fruit fly and to see what genetics are past down from generation to generation. INTERODUCTUON: Mendel’s pea did and experiment that was demonstrates
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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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Fruit Fly Lab Alycia Fletcher Biology IB HL March 25th 2010 Fruit Fly Lab Introduction Genes can either be sex-linked or autosomal. If a gene appears mostly in one sex chances are the gene is sex-linked and if it appears frequently in both sexes it is most likely autosomal. Using Drosophila melanogaster‚ also known as the fruit fly‚ we will determine whether the gene is sex-linked or autosomal. Drosophila melanogasters have a relatively short life span and are an excellent organism
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AP Lab Seven Genetics of Organisms Dan Torres AP Biology 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
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melanogaster: Monohybrid Cross & Sex-Linked Inheritance October 6‚ 2012 Abstract This lab involved a monohybrid reciprocal cross and a sex-linked cross utilizing Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies. After sexing the flies‚ placing them in media‚ and letting them cross breed‚ we analyzed and recorded the phenotypes that were observed. The P1 flies were anesthetized then sexed by observing their phenotypes and equally distributed into the media we made for their copulation
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Genetics With Drosophila Flies Josh Derrall Lab Group: Dana Gilkes James Lupo Olivia Giannola December 4‚ 2012 Prof. Hunter Introduction Genetics is a topic that has been studied for hundreds of years. One of the most notable geneticists was Gregor Mendel. Mendel studied basic inheritance patterns and gene expression using pea plants. Mendel determined that the offspring of two parents contains one gene from each parent (McKusick 1983). However‚ since Mendels discoveries
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Process of Science What Can Fruit Flies Reveal about Inheritance? Lab Notebook Chi-Square test for Case 1 Phenotype Observed No. (o) Expected No. (e) (o-e) (o-e) 2 (o-e) 2 e Red eyes 3 Sepia eyes 1 2 (to the nearest ten-thousandth) Questions 1. Why is it important to remove the adults in the parental generation? It is important to keep the generations separate so that you know you are crossing only F1 flies. 2. What generation will their offspring be? The new offspring
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What Can Fruit Flies Reveal about Inheritance? Lab Notebook Chi-Square test for Case 1 Phenotype Observed No. (o) Expected No. (e) (o-e) (o-e) 2 (o-e) 2 e Red eyes 31 33 2 4 0.1212 Sepia eyes 13 11 2 4 0.3636 2 (to the nearest ten-thousandth) 0.4848 Questions 1. Why is it important to remove the adults in the parental generation? To keep the tests accurate‚ it is important to separate the adults from the parental generation so you know you are only crossing the F-1 flies. 2
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An Experiment of Adaptation Introduction: Throughout history of time‚ organisms change in relation to their environment‚ consequently‚ adaptation is an essential property of life. This experiment is designed to test the adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster. This kind of insect is also called fruit flies‚ it has been widely used in scientific research because it has a short life cycle about two weeks and it is easy to keep large numbers of them (Manning). Two groups of this species will be used
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