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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was found to be very suitable for expermiental verification of chromosomal theory on inheritanc by Morgan and his coleagues because

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it reprodues pathenogeneitically

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a single mating produes two young files

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it completes life cycle in about two weeks

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smaller female is easily recognisable from larger male

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