Also, the fruit fly has only four pairs of chromosomes, so these chromosomes can be easily recognized and tracked from one generation to the next. The Morgan lab therefore set out to examine ...

Finally, fruit flies share nearly 60 percent of our genes ... made further discoveries about genetics using flies. Muller, for instance, showed that X-ray irradiation causes genetic mutations in flies ...

Anyone who has fresh fruit in their kitchen is familiar ... likewise honoured with a Nobel Prize. Thanks to the flies, we know today that radioactivity can cause genetic mutations and breaks in ...

Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common ... Analyzing the genome of a fly is easier than of a mouse or human, as it only consists of eight chromosomes. By way of comparison: the genome ...

The histone, in turn, forms large loops. So the DNA is much, much longer than the chromosome it makes up. The DNA of one of a fruit fly's chromosomes, for example, would be 12 times longer than ...

D. melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, has been a model organism for more than a century, with evolutionary biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University performing some of the ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan began his career when genetics was not a defined field ... Morgan tackled these questions with the help of the common fruit fly. Young naturalist. Morgan was born on September ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins ... She has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in ...