Fruit Flies – An Inquiry into Behavior

Duration: 10

Genre: Educational

Creator: Coronet

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A series of experiments gives students the opportunity to draw their own conclusions about how fruit flies react to changes in their environment. Observes the effects of temperature changes on behavior, including reproduction, and shows a pupa developing into an adult. L.I. Gilbert., Summarizes a series of investigations into the effects of temperature on the activity and reproduction rates of fruitflies. Describes the life cycle of the fruitfly showing the changes and development which take place in the various stages and including a time-lapse sequence of a developing pupa. Encourages student analysis of the results of a final experiment.

Complete Record: A series of experiments gives students the opportunity to draw their own conclusions about how fruit flies react to changes in their environment. Observes the effects of temperature changes on behavior, including reproduction, and shows a pupa developing into an adult. L.I. Gilbert., Summarizes a series of investigations into the effects of temperature on the activity and reproduction rates of fruitflies. Describes the life cycle of the fruitfly showing the changes and development which take place in the various stages and including a time-lapse sequence of a developing pupa. Encourages student analysis of the results of a final experiment.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.