Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.
Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.
Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.
And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.
Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.
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some pictures i’ve taken under the microscope lately <3
(these are my photos, please don’t use without credit)
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Laboratory, 1975. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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and of course we gotta talk about the electric blue mad scientist aesthetic!
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Hello all! I took a break from the Internet but I am back! Little update: I am now in year two of my degree, and I started organic chemistry! Very excited for this year's journey:) 🧪
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Aurora borealis produced in science lab. Expédition Norvégienne de 1899-1900 pour l'étude des aurores boréales. 1901.
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