Yet another Digital Fruit Fly Lab - But with Emphasis on the Genetic Experiment
There are a host of computer simulations to help students grapple with the intellectual challenge of genetics using realistic data. This may be desirable because of the high cost in both time and mone...

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Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Preferences for Different Types of Fruits
This exercise investigates the fruit fly’s preference for certain fruits. The fruit used to start the population of fruit flies can be modified to any fruit the student wishes. I normally recommend p...

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Using Foraging Behavior of Fruit Flies to Introduce Undergraduates to Research
This mini-workshop introduces methods to study foraging behavior of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) as an ideal area of research for undergraduates in both beginning and advanced biology ...

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The Genetics of Eye Color in Drosophila melanogaster
This exercise has been designed to help first-year biology students understand Mendelian inheritance. The pterin (red) eye pigments of wild type and mutant strains are separated using a simple paper c...

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Animal Behavior Experiments Using Arthropods
This exercise is designed to familiarize the student with ethology, the study of animal behavior, by observing the behavior of several different arthropods.

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