- - The Cross of Straight Winged Fruit Flies with Nubbin Winged Fruit Flies The Cross of Straight Winged Fruit Flies with Nubbin Winged Fruit Flies         In 1933, a man named Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize for conducting experiments on genetics by using the Drosophila melanogaster (also known as the fruit fly). This experiment gave him the understanding of sex linked inheritance. The reason why he used fruit flies was because they breed many times …showed first 75 words of 1193 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1193 total…the same. The child is a mixture of each parent. Some children look more like one aren't because of their looks, but inside the could have a kidney disease from the other parent without anyone knowing it.         After trying and completing this experiment successfully, this shows why genetics are so important in our lives. Maybe one day they will figure out how to cure AIDS by using a certain trait that controls the immune system.