Drosophila Melangaster

Drosophila Melangaster, more commonly known as the fruit fly, is the basis of this lab activity. In the process of this lab, we saw a total of three generations of flies. First, we start out with a parent generation of one male and one female. After identifying the traits of each homozygous parent, we removed them from the vial, in order to keep them from reproducing with their children. Next, because of the breeding of these two flies, we had offspring, whose traits we then mapped after they had developed from the pupa. To do this, we had to keep the flies under the microscope without them flying away. We used Fly Nap , a product designed to temporarily paralyze the flies, just long enough for us to determine the gender and genotype of each fly. After inspecting the flies, they were killed, either by releasing them outside or placing them into a jar of liquid. After the F1 generation was developed, counted, an analyzed, we were to remove to or three flies from that generation an...