Curated OER
Thomas Hunt Morgan and the White-Eyed Mutant
Find any article about the genetic research of Thomas Hunt Morgan on the sex-linked eye color trait in Drosophila melanogaster. After having your class read the selection, they can answer these eight critical-thinking questions. This is...
Curated OER
Drosophila Melanogaster
Student manipulate flies, examine their external anatomy, begin a fly journal and make cultures of wild type flies. Young scholars cross wild type flies and mutants, both purchased from a biological supply house (Carolina Biological...
Curated OER
Drosophila Melanogaster
Students manipulate flies, examine their external anatomy, begin a fly journal and make cultures of wild type flies.
Curated OER
Drosophila Melanogaster
Students collect their own flies and construct crosses, then compare them to the data from lesson two.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance
Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan's experiments with the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as a model system.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Common Fruit Fly
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Common Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can...