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A two-week lifespan living like it's going out of style, which it is.
means A tiny flying insect that swarms around ripe or rotting fruit, famous for breeding at absurd speed and for being the lab rat of genetics research.
from Simple compound of 'fruit' + 'fly,' naming the bug by its favorite hangout spot. The common lab species, Drosophila melanogaster, has a Greek-derived scientific name meaning roughly 'dew-loving black-bellied one' — but the everyday English name just calls it like it sees it: a fly, on your fruit.
- shared genes
- about 60 percent match human disease genes
- Nobel count
- won six Nobel prizes for other people
- mating ritual
- males sing love songs by vibrating one wing
- real target
- actually prefers rotting fruit's yeast, not fruit