How many do they share in common with DEMS???
We still are a bit more complicated than fruit flies are! For example, look at something as simple as eye color. In Drosophila it is determined by one gene. We used them in teaching labs, to show the results of crossing a red-eye fly with a white-eye one, and so forth. I hated the hours spent separating the young flies by sex, and isolating the virgin females for the genetics labs. On the other hand, it takes about a dozen genes to to the same in humans (i.e. to determine eye color) and you still cannot account for every possible variation.
So does rutabaga.
So the gay/not gay gene is call the "Fruitless" protein...?
Concentrating all sexual behavior in one gene seems like a bad survival strategy to me. What happens if that one gnee is copied badly?
If it were spread out amongst many genes, it seems like evolution would favor the dispersion of this information which the most critical factor in species survival.
Questions like this are what make me question evolutionary theory. I'm not a creationist or intelligent designist or whatever, but I never feel like evolution explains all that it needs to explain. It's not like physics where a theory explains all observations in a given realm. Evolution seems spotty to me.
A bit frightening if you ask me. I'll think twice from now on when my brother tells me I have the attention span of a fruit fly.