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Fruit Fly Experiments
What is a gene? A gene is a continuous DNA segment that is transcribed into a single preRNA molecule. A zoologist and geneticist named Thomas Hunt Morgan is known for his research with fruit fly. Thomas Morgan was born on September 15,1866 in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1886, he received his B.S. degree at the University of Kentucky. In 1910, Morgan saw that one male fly had a distinct difference about it. Instead of normal red eyes, this fly had white eyes (Allen). He wanted to test the breeding of Drosophila in fruit flies to understand the transmission of genetic traits through their generations. In order to figure out the transmission, Morgan did an experiment of cross testing between white-eyed male flies and red-eyed female flies (Allen).
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