One reason why we decided to use fruit fly’s for our project is that they share many of the same genetics with humans. “Fruit flies share 75% of the genes that cause disease with humans,” which can help scientists discover new diseases very quickly. (Service) Along with that, fruit flies are very low maintenance creatures. With them being very low maintenance, researchers and scientists can have millions of them at a time to work with. As in our class, we also had large amounts of flies to count and study genetics. The last reason that we used fruit flies was because they were easy to put to sleep. After they were put to sleep, we could easily finish up our project. This is why we used fruit flies for the experiment and not larger bugs
