Virtual FlyLab allows you play the role of a research geneticist. It is an educational application for learning the principles of genetic inheritance. You design matings between female and male fruit flies carrying one or more genetic mutations. Virtual FlyLab will apply the correct rules of genetic inheritance to these mutations to obtain the offspring. This site is a fully interactive lesson.
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