The model organism Drosophila Melanogaster has a longstanding history and has contributed historically to Science and society. Model organisms are defined to be a species that have been widely studied because it is easy to maintain and has advantageous breeding abilities in the laboratory. Despite some of its properties that are advantageous in scientific experimentation such as its abundance, affordability, and quick breeding abilities in producing a new generation every 12 days. Historically, the Drosophila Melanogaster was unknown for its characteristics, until the famous biologist Thomas Morgan came to learn about these advantageous abilities.
The fruit fly’s life cycle consists of four stages of reproduction, including the egg, larvae, …show more content…
However, it was not until 1911 after conducting his experiment in the Fruit Fly room that he found a white male mutant among the red eyed wild types. It was through experimentation on the Drosophila melanogaster that Morgan had found the Mendelian ratio but also found three major findings. The three major findings are as described.. “First, genes reside on chromosomes. The second finding was that each gene must reside on a particular chromosome. The third finding was that the trait for eye colour must reside on the sex chromosome”. This last finding popularly became known as “sex-linked inheritance”.” These three major findings contributed to Morgan’s well known “Chromosomal theory of heredity”. This had become a major cornerstone in understanding genetics and how genes are found in chromosomes.
In addition, the work experimented on the Drosophila melanogaster served as a prototype to the perfect experiment for those involved in all Sciences. The fruit fly served as the perfect prototype because, despite Morgan’s failings in earlier research he was able to find a mutation among the fruit flies at last. The fruit fly had helped Morgan determine what were the inherited factors, where were they located, and how they were passed from one generation to the …show more content…
F.W Taylor’s scientific management ..  time and motion studies .. this reduced a lot of waste . The drosophila melanogaster had changed the way mass production was perceived in the early 20th century. Frederick W. Taylor had published “Principles of scientific management” and stated that .. “every business needed to be reshaped like a machine”. It was through this publication of Taylor’s that standardization had come into play.
It was standardization that changed mass production into what it is today. Standardized products led us to the mass production of items without needing experienced workers and resulted in more efficient time saving work.

A big advantage of fruit flies is its similarity to humans… “about 75% of known human disease genes have a recognizable match in the genome of fruit flies and 50% of fly protein sequences have mammalian homologs.” This enables scientists to use the Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism for several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s. It was through the fruit flies research studies that we are able to draw associations between proposed factors and neurodegenerative diseases. Bellen et al proposes that the Drosophila Melanogaster had been such a popular source of use because of its “fly toolbox” that contained sophistication and precision.