• Question: What's the fruit fly?

    Asked by anon-181141 to Millie, Lauren, Laura, Jo on 5 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Joanne Sharpe

      Joanne Sharpe answered on 5 Jun 2018:

      Fruit flies are the annoying little flies you’ll see hanging around wherever there is rotten fruit – maybe a bin, or maybe your fruit bowl if you’re not eating your apples! They’ve been used for over 50 years to study genetics and human disease, odd as that sounds!

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  • Photo: Donna

    Donna commented on :

    Drosophila melanogaster is the correct name… my University final year project worked on them… I can still tell you if the one in your bread bag or hanging around your fruit bowl is male or female by the shape of its bum!