fruit fly

     

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Trivia about fruit fly

  • The Drosophilidae family of this insect is used extensively in genetics because of its short, 10-day life cycle
  • Using this insect, geneticist Thomas Morgan proved that some traits pass on to only one sex or the other
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his work on heredity using this insect's genes
  • Here's the buzz: its scientific genus is Drosophila

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