What’s the difference between fruit flies and gnats? If you spot little black bugs flying around, the first thing you want to do is identify the bug. It’s easy to confuse fruit flies and ...

You never see fruit flies in grocery stores. You don’t see them in the grocery bags on the way home. But as soon as your room temperature fruit connects with the fruit basket, it seems like they all ...

After tracking physical characteristics of the common pea plant through multiple generations, Gregor Mendel realized that inheritance follows specific patterns. Mendel’s discovery led to what we ...

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily bodily rhythms, including sleep and metabolic disorders ...

and that a fruit fly can have either a brown body or a black body. This coloration is a direct result of the body color alleles that a fly inherits from its parents (Figure 2). In fruit flies ...