Ok So I'm Taking A Genetics Class Right Now And In Lab We've Been Given Fruit Flies With Different Mutations

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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hello yes plz keep us updated on the yeast crawls

Yall I have some FANTASTIC news: today I saw the first little F2 generation* larvae. It was so honking tiny. I could barely see the lil guy.

*F2 generation means the second generation after your original parents, so basically the grandkids of your first organisms you had bred. F2 generations also tend to be very.... sweet home Alabama, shall we say, which is done to get the resessive traits to get expressed in their ofspring that was expressed in the original parents.

Everyone jokes/used to joke about Among us ruining them because they see it everywhere and in everything, but I never experienced that.

You wanna know what is ruining my brain though? Analog horror. I can't fuckin hear or see ads without thinking "heehee computur synthesized voice, they're trying to be creepy"

Theres these god damn amazon ads that I can't see without thinking "why are they emulating omega mart ads?" Its freaking everywhere. I see a damn deer outside? Ive seen this analog horror before. Street sign symbols? Fuckin analog horror stick people. Im loosing my mind.

..... huh. I haven't posted any art in a while.

*clears throat*

Vote or I will lure the snails out or your ears with the promise of good food, and then you will never be able to balance ever again