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Direct linkBierema, Andrea; Schwartz, Renee – Science Teacher, 2016
The fruit fly ("Drosophila melanogaster") is an ideal subject for studying inheritance patterns, Mendel's laws, meiosis, Punnett squares, and other aspects of genetics. Much of what we know about genetics dates to evolutionary biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan's work with mutated fruit flies in the early 1900s. Many genetic laboratories…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Animals, Genetics, Teaching Methods
