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 ...

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 ...

The fruit fly has a long history of use in genetics research and teaching. It was in Drosophila melanogaster that genes were found to be bundled up in chromosomes, through crosses between red-eyed ...

The fruit fly has a long history of use in genetics research and teaching. It was in Drosophila melanogaster that genes were found to be bundled up in chromosomes, through crosses between red-eyed ...

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 ...

Why a fruit fly or why not just start with our own brain if that’s what we want to understand? According to Gabriella Sterne, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics, Biology ...

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 ...

"Vishva knew I was an expert in Drosophila (fruit fly) genetics, a resource that was not available at Genentech," Wolf said.

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 ...