July 14, 2009
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random fruit fly fact
"In fruit flies, sex is determined independently in each cell in the course of development. Those cells that are XX express female traits; those that are XO express male traits. Such sexual mosaics are called gynandromorphs".
That would be confusing.
There are way too many ways for life to go wrong; it is insane how delicate we all really are, and in many ways miraculous that so many relatively normal people exist. Sometimes we all take things like our health and normality for granted. It isn't always good to be unique
. Genetically anyways. (Though variation is necessary for survival). On the same note, I found another dried up dead fruit fly in my notebook. It's like a pressed flower, except in fly form. Ha.
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Ah, there goes my "new thing I learn every day" fact
wtf? How does that work? There has to be a central regulatory thingy for the development of whole sexual organs of the fly.
Without any doubt you are at this moment studying genetic and ontology .
yes the progresses of scinces reveal how life is prodigious and even more.
Love
Michel
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