What do you clone?

 

drosophila.

drosophila.

*googles*

 

...fruit flies?

:thinking:

What would you do with cloned fruit flies?

Drosophila melanogaster is a popular experimental animal because it is easily cultured in mass out of the wild, has a short generation time, and mutant animals are readily obtainable. In 1906, Thomas Hunt Morgan began his work on D. melanogaster and reported his first finding of a white (eyed) mutant in 1910 to the academic community. He was in search of a model organism to study genetic heredity and required a species that could randomly acquire genetic mutation that would visibly manifest as morphological changes in the adult animal. His work on Drosophila earned him the 1933 Nobel Prize in Medicine for identifying chromosomes as the vector of inheritance for genes. This and other Drosophila species are widely used in studies of genetics, embryogenesis, and other areas.

 

:shrug:

Ahhh okay

I guess...

I still don't see how flies could be used for that. They're a lot different from us...

But meh, maybe I'm just looking at it wrong.

:shrug:

 

Don't ask me, I'm not the biologist.

BREEEENT

*googles*

 

...fruit flies?

 

ya dood.

what

You're sort of a scientist, right?

I think so

Then explain the fruit flies thing.

*Scrolls up*

 

They can be used for molecular modeling because, despite looking really different, they share about 99% of the DNA as us. And molecularly, they have the same mechanisms and everything.

 

My lab looks at protein recruitment between different genotypes, and to examine those, we have to make clones of the female flies of a certain type.

 

mmkay

Oh, that's cool.

Fruit Fly Cloning....

 

 

*Has a Princess Diaries flash back*

 

*Judith Gershner*

:lol:

mmkay

:nod:

mmkay?

 

mmkay.

'kay then.

So.

Why am I still here?

 

:escaping: Bye!