Time, Love, Memory: Entry #1

In Time, Love, Memory, what surprised me the most is how a small fly is able to make a difference in the studies that Benzer, Morgan, and the other scientists conducted. They were able to discover genetic material such as DNA and the recessive and dominant genes that Mendel was able to see form his pea experiment, as well as animal behavior from just this tiny fly. I would have thought that a larger animal would have made a larger impact, but in this case this fly was able to make a bigger discovery than most animals used. Returning back to animal behavior, the author made it important that the audience saw what he was trying to do in his experiments. He was trying to see the behavior of the fly most of the time and why the flies did that. I found it interesting on how the flies moved (taxis and kinesis) depending on what variables that Benzer and his colleagues did in their experiments. What also surprised me was the amount of scientists that were involved in the experiments that Benzer conducted, there were so many who took an interest in this matter and soon it evolved and many of them making important discoveries.

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Time, Love, Memory book.