Drosophila- Results

The data above compares Drosophila melanogaster growth and development at each gender and life stage at varying concentrations of the growth hormone, ecdysone. According to Figure 1 and Tables 2 and 3, overall, pupae are most abundant during normal conditions (control vial). In table 2 we observed 81 pupae in the control vial, followed by 61 pupae in the 10 µM vial, then 47 pupae in the 1.0 vial, then 25 pupae in the 0.1 vial. This coincides with the data in Figure 1, where pupae exhibit the largest number of flies than any other life stage, with the control vial displaying the largest number of pupae counted. In Figure 2, for the control vial and the 10 µM vial, there is a significantly higher number of females than males. This is also supported by Table 2, where there are 10 females and 3 males for the control, and 2 females and 0 males for the 10 vial. On the other hand, for the 0.1 and 1 concentrations of ecdysone, there are more males than females. In Figure 3, the females overall have a greater length than that of the males throughout all concentrations of ecdysone.