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Drosophila melanogaster
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Noun1.Drosophila melanogaster - small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritanceDrosophila melanogaster - small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
fruit fly, pomace fly - any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits
genus Drosophila - a genus of Drosophilidae


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Males from three other Drosophila species also courted scentless D.
50 Hardcover Methods in molecular biology; 420 QL537 The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has long served as a model organism for scientific research and recent advances that now allow the knock-down of genes by RNA interference and gene replacement by homologous recombination suggest that D.
 
 
 
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