Drosophila melanogaster

The results show that the protein derived from the Drosophila cDNA sequence and the human protein share the same domain, also, there is a high degree of homology between the two proteins. Therefore, the Drosophila Melanogaster plasmid DNA sequence codes for a protein that has a human homologous involved in human physiology. Researchers are still investigating the function of my protein in Drosophila Melanogaster. However, the function of the homologous protein in human is pretty clear. Indeed,…

Introduction This experiment was designed to examine inheritance patterns in Drosophila melanogaster. Three crosses were set up to examine the inheritance of eye color, body color, and wing shape. The mutant males used in this experiment had: sepia eyes with ebony bodies, white eyes and yellow bodies, or sepia eyes with vestigial wings. All of the females were wild-type. It was also confirmed that the females being used were virgins. This fact was important since female flies can store the…

This review article describes how the mating decision of Drosophila fruit flies is dependent of first the male’s choice to mate and then the female’s choice to accept or reject the male. The article simplifies the mating by the neurobiology behind the male’s choice and then the female’s choice. Furthermore, the article describes how males rely on chemical signals to detect suitable courtship objects and distinguish female flies from males. According to the article, males courtship is based on…

The Spotted Wing Drosophila fly (SWD) is a quickly spreading across the United States of America. As SWD numbers get larger the number of fruit crops gets smaller. Aijun Zhang, a chemist working with the Agriculture Research Service, Invasive Insect Biocontrol, and the Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville Maryland, has found a solution to the SWD problem, Methyl benzoate. Methyl benzoate is emitted by snapdragons and petunias, to attract bees. SWD, unlike bees, is repelled from Methyl benzoate,…

Our group was assigned fruit flies with the mutated traits of shadow body and stubby wings. These traits were easily identifiable. A shadowed body was gray instead of the wild-type color of light brown, and stubby wings were nearly absent from the organism when they should be prominent. In this experiment, we attempted to determine the mode of inheritance for these two traits. After the parents mated, we viewed their F1 offspring. We noticed this generation didn’t contain either of the…

six weeks of genetic lab we have been doing an experiment about fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster); we had the opportunity to learn more of how to distinguish between the male and female drosophila; one way that helps me was to look for the sex comb and the size. The purpose of this experiment was to learn more and be able to understand the Mendelian Genetics. We did an actual cross of fruit fly (drosophila melanogaster) such as the monohybrid, dihybrid, X-linked A, X-linked B and three points…

many purposes, which include genes, genotyping, sequencing, cloning, etc. (Kelly, 2016). This allows for the ability to conduct DNA analysis revealing varying compositions and properties. For the following experiment the genomic DNA from Drosophila melanogaster, was utilized to be cloned and sequenced for either actin or 18s rRNA. In order to clone and sequence the specific section of DNA 9 specific steps had to be conducted and they are as follows: extraction/purification of DNA, amplify the…

2.RELATED WORK The artificial bee colony (ABC), an optimization technique is based upon the intelligent moving behavior of honey bee swarm was proposed by Karaboga in 2005. This kind of new Meta heuristic is inspired by the clever foraging behavior of honey bee swarm. The criteria presented in the work is for numerical function optimization. The advantage of ABC is that the global search ability in the algorithm is implemented by introducing neighborhood source production mechanism. Rao et al.…

as drosophila have been used extensively to demonstrate the classical Mendelian laws because they are inexpensive and abundant in genetic variations due to a small number of chromosomes. The purpose of this lab was to determine the phenotypic ratio for monohybrid and dihybrid crosses using drosophila. In a monohybrid cross, a single trait (eye color) is crossed in the organism and in a dihybrid cross,two different traits (eye color and wings) are crossed for a particular organism (drosophila).…

1. What is the scientific name of fruit flies? The scientific name of fruit flies is Drosophila melanogaster. 2. Why are fruit flies used in scientific research? Fruit flies are used in scientific research because we, as humans, share 75% of the genes that cause diseases in us with them. This allows scientists to studying genes that exist in humans without actually experimenting on humans. In addition, it is not hard to take care of fruit flies and scientists can study them without…