Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Pesky Little Fruit Flies...

For our next ongoing project in Biology we worked with hundreds of fruit flies, or Drosophila.  We sorted them, chose the ones we wanted to cross breed, put those in a vial together with mashed potatoes and yeast, then let the magic happen! About two weeks later we looked at the offspring of these flies, recorded the totals, then did the same with a new group of people and fruit flies.  This was a more controlled experiment the second time and as a class we had really successful results.  After all this we wrote up our conclusions and class data.  This project was really interesting, and even though it seemed to go on for QUITE A LONG TIME it was worth it and I now know the real-world-application of breeding fruit flies!

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