Definitions
small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
Word origin
From taxonomic name Drosophila.
Used in a sentence
“In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection.”
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01“Lab fruit fly”10 letters
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