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Title: Why use fruit flies for a gene experiment?
Post by: Buddy01m on Jun 21, 2013
I am doing a lab write-up about our experiments on fruit flies. Why had the F1 generation and had them reproduce the F2 generation. With the F2 generation we looked at each fly and examined whether they were male or female, if they were wildtype, or if they had a mutation. And we had to know the different mutations. I have to answer the questions: Why fruit flies as a model?  What are mendels laws? and develop a null hypothesis on sorting independently.


Title: Why use fruit flies for a gene experiment?
Post by: findy on Jun 21, 2013
they have few chromosomes to keep track of and map and such; and
DNA works the same in all organisms so ya, allot of offspring too, to ensure ratios of each type of offspring


Title: Why use fruit flies for a gene experiment?
Post by: ringo on Jun 21, 2013
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