Drosophila melanogaster
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
Types & categories
- fruit fly hypernym
Parts & wholes
- genus Drosophila member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | genus Drosophila |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fruit fly |