fruit fly in English

noun
1
a small fly that feeds on fruit in both its adult and larval stages.
To elucidate the cellular functions of NSF, we have chosen to use a genetic approach in the fruit fly , Drosophila melanogaster.

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1. However, its effectiveness against the olive fruit fly has not yet been sufficiently tested.

2. It's like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car's headlight.

3. That's only three times more than a fruit fly and twice as many as a roundworm.

4. So I want you to look at the payload at the tail of the fruit fly.

5. soluble Linden powder and 20 ml Malathion should be sprayed per 10 litre water . 2 ) Fruit fly :

6. We mainly producing pest Attractants, such as mosquito Attractant, fly Attractant, fruit fly Attractant and so on.

7. soluble Linden powder and 20 ml Malethion should be sprayed per 10 litre water . 2 ) Fruit fly :

8. CQFIRU scientists will test the baits for toxicity to Mexican fruit fly and Attractance of these baits under field conditions

9. Say you wanted to make a fruit fly that feeds on ordinary fruit instead of rotting fruit, with the aim of sabotaging American agriculture.

10. Ci Cubitus interruptus [ (fruit fly)] Study indicated that Sqh is crucial to regulate the stability of the transcription factor Cubitus interruptus (Ci) in Hedgehog (Hh) pathway

11. Susana had engineered the fruit fly on the left so that just two out of the 200, 000 cells in its brain expressed the light- activated pore.

12. Golden raisins are Allowed to contain 35 fruit fly eggs as well as 10 or more whole insects (or their equivalent heads and legs) for every 8 ounces

13. This is the first time ever that the different steps involved in the actual construction of motile flagella in sperm cells of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) have been described.

14. The researchers found that Sex-lethal (Sxl), which is a widely studied key sex determination gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, is an essential gene for the formation of Apyrene sperm

15. Your DNA probably contains between 25 thousand and 40 thousand genes, while the DNA of a worm or a plant or a fruit fly contains about 12 thousand to 20 thousand genes.

16. In a fruit fly model system (Drosophila larva) in which acentric chromosomes (without centromeres) were induced, chromosomes still tethered to the spindle and segregated to the poles, and adult survival was not impaired.