[Noisebridge-discuss] Fruit flys and YOU!
Mark Cohen
markc at binaryfaith.com
Fri Oct 31 18:46:30 UTC 2008
Microscope and tiny tweezers?
>;-)
-Mark
On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Meredith L. Patterson wrote:
> Praveen Sinha wrote:
>> On 10/30/08, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>
>>>> noisebridge for homebrew evolution experiments...
>>> As {the token, a} Vegan, I'd like to express my displeasure at the
>>> idea
>>> of any kind of animal experimentation. Please don't. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Don't worry, I'm actually against animal experimentation too
>> (although
>> I did do a lot of fruit fly experiments in college) and sort of ruled
>> it out in my head in terms of cost/benefit once I sent the email
>> off...
>
> How does one sex fruit flies, anyway? Do they bother to keep them
> separate in labs? I'm guessing there are separate X/Y traits, but I
> haven't done the GenBank query to check yet.
>
> --mlp, inquiring minds
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