Columbia University Fly Room, around 1920

Drosophila is easy to maintain and has many descendants and grows rapidly. Drosophila shares many so-called "masters" or homeotic genes with humans

Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) is a professor of zoology at the Columbia University in New York. He began breeding flies around 1905 and opened the famous 'Flight Room' at Columbia University. Between 1905 and 1925, the flight room in Colombia was the center of genetics and the catalyst room of a new science. Mendel, in principle, shows that genes are inherited independently. The color of pea does not affect wrinkles and circles. However, when Morgan tested more and more flies mutants, he found anomalies. In 1910, Morgan and common red-eye flies mate with light white-eye mutants, surprisingly found that descendants of all white eyes are male. He believes that the color of the eye color must be related to sex genes. In 1911, he confirmed his suspicion: since they live on the same chromosome - X chromosome, the color of the eye color and gender of the sex are related

Fly Room was at Thomas Hunter Morgan Laboratory at Columbia University and worked from 1904 to 1927. Morgan's laboratory is often considered the birthplace of modern genetic research and is called the "flight room" for the pioneering use of Drosophila melanogaster to study genetics. This laboratory has made some important contributions to understand genetic mutation, genetic and sexual linkage characteristics Morgan has a Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine in 1933 for its role in heredity in heredity I continued winning.

Flight Room Morgan wishes to understand genetic change, genetics and mutation. After 13 years at Bryn Mawr College, he moved to Columbia University where he founded the famous 'Flight Room'. Drosophila melanogaster or drosophila is an excellent genetic research topic because it can be reproduced cheaply and quickly. Although Morgan did not use it for the first time for fruit fly, his innovation and success promoted its use. Design was simple and easy to operate, his early experiments were genetics classics. Even today, if you do not spend some time cultivating fruit fly, you can not receive complete undergraduate genetics education.