drosophila
pronunciation
How to pronounce drosophila in British English:
UK [drəˈsɒfɪlə]
How to pronounce drosophila in American English:
US [ drəˈsɑːfɪlə]
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- Noun:
- small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
Word Origin
- drosophila (n.)
- scientific name of a fruit fly, 1829, from Modern Latin (Fallén, 1823), from Greek drosos "dew" + philos "loving" see -phile).
Example
- 1. Electron micrograph of drosophila flys eyes .
- 2. But what it lacks in toughness , drosophila melanogastermakes up for in speed .
- 3. Drosophila melanogaster we don 't invite fruit flies to the family reunion , but they arrive uninvited , billowing up from the fresh peaches .
- 4. Image : drosophila epithelial tissue ( wing , haltere , and leg disc ) imaged with a zeiss lsm 510 laser scanning confocal microscope .
- 5. Researchers at the university of california in san francisco have identified the precise subset of nerve cells responsible for transmitting gentle touch to the brains of drosophila , or fruit fly , larvae .