In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan [4] performed an experiment at Columbia University [5], in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes play in heredity. That year, Morgan was breeding Drosophila [6], or fruit flies. After observing thousands of fruit fly offspring with red eyes, he obtained one that had white eyes. Morgan began breeding the white-eyed mutant fly and found tha...

Abstract Attitudes to animals and their relationship with the human have undergone significant changes over last six decades, from rise of environmental movement debates about genetic modification. Poetry has responded these developments but also contributed argument activism. This essay aims make sense this history its literary consequences by investigating representation otters in work a seri...

Eli J. Cohen and Kelly T. Hughes 8 9 Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA 10 11 12 1 Corresponding author: 13 Kelly T. Hughes; Mailing address: Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 14 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA; Tel: +801-587-3367; Fax: +80115 585-9735; E-mail: [email protected] 16 17 18 19