Ames Home NASA Home Fun Facts about Fruit Flies Sharmila Bhattacharya, Ph.D., a Lockheed Martin scientist supporting the Life Sciences Division, makes her career from studying organisms like Drosophila using advanced tools in molecular biology and genetics.
Centrifugation is a way of creating a gravity gradient.
Its genome contains 13,601 genes. As long as you keep them perfused with CO2, they ll stay asleep. The most common eye color for Drosophila is red.