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description: Fly Cycle2 is a CD-ROM (or DVD) adaptation of the film, Fly Cycle: The Lives of a Fly, Drosophila melanogaster (Mary S. Tyler, Jamie W. Schnetzer and David Tartaglia, Sinauer Associates, 1996). The CD-ROM is formatted for Macintosh and Windows systems. It includes forty minutes of QuickTime movies, depicting details on the biology and life cycle of Drosophilaadult courting and mating, embryonic development, larval growth, imaginal discs and salivary glands, metamorphosis, and a gallery of mutants used in research. Fly Cycle2 is designed to be used at a number of educational levels. At high school and introductory undergraduate levels, it can acquaint students with the fruit fly life cycle and a number of the mutants used in introductory courses. For more advanced undergraduates in developmental biology and genetics courses, and for graduate students beginning their research on Drosophila, the CD-ROM (or DVD) introduces the many specifics they will need to know, and techniques for examining the organism in detail. Included on the CD-ROM is the text to an accompanying 40-page booklet that can be used on the computer, with convenient text hyperlinks, or printed out. The booklet presents information on each segment of the CD-ROM, a "getting started" section for those who want to raise fruit flies, a list of suppliers, an annotated selected bibliography, and a glossary. New on this CD-ROM are: * A complete set of laboratory instructions for the study of fruit fly behavior and development in PDF format with hyperlinks for subsections and glossary terms. The PDF can be printed for classroom use. * Interactive puzzles and questions for each chapter of the film, accessible directly from the CD-ROM through an Internet connection * Larger video format, with improved video and audio quality * New "scene selection" feature allows the user to either play the video straight through or to choose specific scenes The DVD version features improved video and audio quality, and a new scene selection feature. Additional material is available from the Fly Cycle web page, including: a 40-page booklet that includes extensive information on each video segment, a complete set of instructions for laboratory study, and online puzzles and questions.
title: Flycycle 2: Lives of a Fly
titlecomplete: Flycycle 2: Lives of a Fly
publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc