drosophila melanogaster

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   small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance

   Synonymsdrosophila

   Broaderfruit fly

   Part ofgenus Drosophila

Questions about drosophila melanogaster

What does drosophila melanogaster mean?

drosophila melanogaster means "small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance".

What is another word for drosophila melanogaster?

Close synonyms include drosophila. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drosophila melanogaster a common word?

drosophila melanogaster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.