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Fruit Flies Research Paper

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Fruit flies with normal wings have a higher population and greatly outnumber the population of fruit flies with dichaete or vestigial wings.
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What causes fruit flies to have dichaete of vestigial wings is something called mutations. Mutations are, “Changes to the genetic information of an organism. Some mutations benefit the organisms, others harm it, and the rest have no notable impact whatsoever,” according to a Mutations article on Stemscopedia. In other words a mutation is any change in the sequence of DNA in a cell. The number of fruit flies with dichaete or vestigial wings is less than the number of fruit flies with regular wings because these mutations are rare. In the Mutations: Harmful or Helpful? article it states, …show more content…

“The cellular machinery that copies DNA sometimes makes mistakes,” there are about 37.5 trillion cells in the human body, and their job is to make copies of DNA, yet sometimes the cells make a mistake and either switch, remove, or add a gene. This does not occur often, so when it does these mistakes are called mutations. Another reason that signifies why mutations are unusual is because mutations are mostly recessive traits. In an online article, Fruit Fly Phenotypes it informs us about fruit flies and some of the mutations, “This mutation is a recessive trait, meaning that the fly won't express the gene unless it gets it from both parents.” In other words some mutations are recessive traits meaning both parents must have the trait for the offspring to have the mutation as well. According to a lab, Genetic Variation in Monsters, “Recessive traits only show up if dominant traits are absent and are represented by a lowercase letter. Dominant traits show up in the offspring whenever present.” This is an explanation of what recessive and dominant traits are, in quotes it says that dominant trait are found anywhere where at least

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