{"id":110,"date":"2017-05-30T09:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efolio.soton.ac.uk\/blog\/discoverneuroscience\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2019-06-08T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:05:14","slug":"step-2-page-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/for-students\/project-guide\/step-2-designing-your-experiment\/step-2-page-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 2 Page 3 &#8211; Common Mutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\">Common Mutants<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\">It&#8217;s important to consider what different <em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips12'>Drosophila<\/span> <\/em>and <em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>Nematode<\/span><\/em> mutants you have access to if you plan to work with these. By using mutants you can see if there are any differences between a mutant and a non-mutant animal to a task (See past titles).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips12'>Drosophila<\/span> mutants<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-922 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/05\/fruitfly-1340087-e1531829002817-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/05\/fruitfly-1340087-e1531829002817-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/05\/fruitfly-1340087-e1531829002817.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips12'>Drosophila<\/span><\/em>, or fruit fly, was first studied by William Castle in 1901, and they became popular organisms to study due to them being cheap to breed and raise, as well as having a breeding age of only 10 days. This research has led to many discoveries regarding genes being located on chromosomes, the impacts of X-ray exposure, and that chromosomal inheritance specifies the sex of an individual. With all of this research completed, this helps to make the\u00a0<em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips12'>Drosophila<\/span><\/em> a well documented and easy-to-study organism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-979 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2017\/05\/c.elegans-e1496918121658-1-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>Nematode<\/span> mutants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips11'>C. elegans<\/span><\/em> is an incredibly important <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips18'>Nematode<\/span> within research due to its rapid life-cycle, small size, transparency, well-annotated, and accessibility. 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