drosophila

Pronunciation:			drow'sâfulu
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Matching Terms:			drosophila heat shock proteins, drosophila melanogaster, drosophilidae
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
	Synonyms:		Drosophila melanogaster
	See Also:		fruit fly, genus Drosophila, pomace fly
Biology Dictionary
	Definition:		A genus of small flies which are extensively used as test animals to study genetics, cell biology, and developmental biology. The most well-known species used is Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.
	Synonyms:		fly