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The World of Fruit Fly Names
There's a whole group of unfortunate fates commonly met by eggs, which are the names for defects in the kind of egg part of the fruit fly cycle. Blood cell scientists have named genes on different types of blood cells after different red and white wines. And if you think fruit fly scientists are fun of parties, you haven't met zebrafish,. There's some sets of genes that tell a very subtle story about how it functions - like sonic hedgehog.
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