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.
String identified: 'tagagtccagtaa'gttttattatttctt. ,ttga:t'tatt.Tatat.Tattattgt.Tcatactaatt.Taa. c,tttatagtcattattat,aat'g.at,tca'tttgt'a,tcat. Ata.tattcttatatataca't. Aa,'cagtatcaaatg.
Closest match: Pyrus communis U-box domain-containing protein 5-like (LOC137740242), transcript variant X1, mRNA Common name: Common Pear
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they can't even eat that :(
