{"id":82482,"date":"2026-01-14T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=82482"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:29:18","slug":"drosophila-melanogaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/drosophila-melanogaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Drosophila Melanogaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Drosophila Melanogaster Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers studied the ovaries of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to investigate the mechanisms that maintain the function of reproductive stem cells over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Drosophila Melanogaster<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is colloquially <\/span><b>known as the fruit fly.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lives in a wide <\/span><b>range of habitats.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Native habitats include those in the <\/span><b>tropical regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Old World, but the common fruit fly has been introduced to almost all temperate regions of the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Food Habit:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fruit flies lives primarily on plant material. The adults thrive on rotting plants<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Reproduction:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reproduction in Drosophila <\/span><b>is rapid<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A single pair of flies can produce hundreds of offspring <\/span><b>within a couple of weeks,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the offspring become sexually mature within one week.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Physical Description of Drosophila Melanogaster<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drosophila matures through <\/span><b>complete metamorphosis.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is covered in a <\/span><b>chitinous exoskeleton<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; has three main body segments; and has three pairs of segmented legs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are easily drawn towards the smell of any food source<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their <\/span><b>eyes are sensitive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to slight differences in <\/span><b>light intensity.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>sexually dimorphic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (males and females are different), making it is quite easy to differentiate the sexes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It remains one of the most commonly used model <\/span><b>organisms for biomedical science.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2214197&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drosophila melanogaster  is colloquially known as the fruit fly. 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