Question

Drosophila melanogaster is a model organism in Genetics justify

Answer 1

They're easy to keep, and work with. The fruit fly has many practical features that allow scientists to carry out research with ease:

• A short life cycle,
• ease of culture and maintenance, and
• a low number of chromosomes
• a small genome size (in terms of base pairs), but
• giant salivary gland chromosomes, known as polytene chromosomes.