In article >, Arri London >
wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> >
> > In article >, Arri London >
> > wrote:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Never did that sort of fruitfly work during university.
> >
> > They have a variety of mutants and you are supposed to guess by the
> > percentage of passed on mutations when bred back to the wild types, then
> > cross breeding the offspring whether or not the gene for the mutation
> > (white eyes, no wings, etc.) was sex linked or autosomal recessive or
> > dominant.
> >
> > Your average population sample was a minimum of 100 flies. They start
> > breeding at two hours after hatching from pupae so you had to go to the
> > lab frequently to separate "virgin" females if you wanted to control the
> > actual cross breeding.
> >
> > So keeping a vial of separated virgin female wild types saved me a LOT
> > of lab time. I collected them as I had time when I was working with the
> > other cultures.
> >
> > It was interesting and fun. :-)
> > --
>
>
> So very glad we never did anything like that. Only studied genetics at a
> postgraduate level and was spared. Probably wouldn't have liked it at
> all

It was a lot of work, but it really was fascinating to see how the
statistics actually worked out with genetic mutations. :-)
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down."
--Steve Rothstein


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