Sentences with phrase «fly eye color»

Pick out characteristics that are reliably passed down and easy to identify, such as fly eye color and wing shape.

Not exact matches

But if its ever going to be looked over, this will be the year, because the # 1 criteria is the eye test, and this team still passes that with flying colors.

The researchers took female fruit flies from six different strains and mated each with two males: one guy, with an eye - color mutation, got lucky every time; the other was a male picked from one of the six strains.

Collins and Anthony James of the University of California, Irvine, thought they might use the mutant bug to test a fancy trick: Take a bit of DNA, called a transposon, that likes to wiggle into genomes, and use it to insert a fruit fly gene for darker eye color into a mosquito's DNA.

By temporarily modifying the function of Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins — which play an essential role in development — the researchers obtained fruit fly lines having the same DNA sequence but different eye colors.

With such rapid progress, the field has likely raced well beyond the high school biology textbook your class used to study alleles, fruit flies and eye color inheritance.

For a person who is used to passing eye exams with flying colors, it was a humbling experience.

Not only is the color an eye - catcher... the butterflies are actually sewn on to look like they're flying off of you!

These paintings present a boldly colored world of alien lounge singers, flying saucers en route to modified ziggurats, and one - eyed nymphs bounding naked through nuclear landscapes.

The Birdsbesafe web site says that for success, the cat's collar has to be visible to the bird, the bird must be a songbird whose eyes have the special anatomy to see bright colors especially well; and the bird must have time to and be able to fly away.