Write the scientific name of the fruit-fly. Why did Morgan prefer to work with fruit-flies for his experiments ? State any three reasons.

Explanation

Margan worked with Drosophila melanogaster a fruitfly.
1. Fruit flies are prolific breeders and have a generation time of two weeks.
2. Fruit flies have three pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes (XX in females, XY in males). The sexes could thus be easily differentiated.
3. They could be grown on simple synthetic medium in laboratory.