Definitionn. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
Last update: June 21, 2015
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Baron Osten Sacken informs me that it is a Drosophila, "the species of which live in putrescent vegetable matter, especially fruits." [Please select]
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Morgan and Plough, * for example, have discovered that when a certain fly, called the drosophila, is subjected to extremes of heat or cold, the offspring show an unusually strong tendency to differ from the parents. [Please select]
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