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Definition of Drosophila

1. Noun. Small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance.

Definition of Drosophila

1. Noun. Any fruit fly of the genus ''Drosophila'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drosophila

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Medical Definition of Drosophila

1. A genus of small, American flies, Diptera. The best known species is D. Melanogaster, often called the fruit fly, but more correctly termed the vinegar fly. First investigated by T.H.Morgan and his group, it has been extensively used in genetic studies. More recently it has been used for studies of embryonic development. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drosophila

Literary usage of Drosophila

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readings in Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics by Horatio Hackett Newman (1921)
"No inherited characters have been discovered in Drosophila which are not ... Drosophila type.—The same type of sex-linked inheritance which is found in ..."

2. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"... SEX-LINKED AND OTHER KINDS OF LINKED INHERITANCE IN Drosophila ALL the facts of sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila harmonize with Morgan's hypothesis ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"In the cultures of Drosophila melanogaster which I have been breeding at Indiana University, two new eye colors have lately appeared. One of these, rose, ..."

4. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"Drosophila, THE BIOLOGICAL CINDERELLA JUST as the bacteriologist firmly ... Although, like Cinderella, Drosophila comes from the humble environment of the ..."

5. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation (1916)
"In Drosophila there is a quintuple system of factors in the sex chromosome represented by eye colors, a triple system of body colors, and a triple system of ..."

6. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE UPON FACET NUMBER IN THE BAR-EYED MUTANT OF Drosophila * PART I. BY JOSEPH KRAFKA, JR. (From the Zoological Laboratory of the ..."

7. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences Staff, National Academy Of Sciences (1980)
"Aneuploidy of the second and third chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. ... The demonstration of a new chromosome arm in Drosophila melanogaster. ..."

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