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ID 16269
Columbia University Fly Room, around 1920
Description:
The Fly Room at Columbia University, around 1920. Note the bananas used as fruit fly food. The room no longer exists at Columbia.
Keywords:
fruit fly food, columbia university, bananas, fly room, gallery 10, 1920
This work by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Related content:
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- SOURCE: DNAFTB
- 16268. Gallery 10: Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia (2), 1917
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- 16264. Gallery 10: Male Fruit Fly
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- 16289. Gallery 11: Calvin Bridges at Columbia, ca 1926
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- SOURCE: DNAFTB
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- 16596. Gallery 27: Hermann Muller and his staff
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- 16262. Concept 10: Chromosomes carry genes.
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- SOURCE: DNAFTB
- 16270. Gallery 10: Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia, 1920
- Morgan at his desk at Columbia, 1920.
- SOURCE: DNAFTB
- 1719. Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
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- 16290. Gallery 11: Calvin Bridges at Caltech, 1935
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