Tag Archives: IMAGINAL DISCS

Advantages of Drosophila as a model for basic and applied research

By | April 19, 2021

Drosophila has always served as a genetic model system, which was used to understand various aspects of life. This is largely due to some key aspects of fruit fly biology like its fast development cycle, ease and cheap to culture in the lab, wide array of genetic tool ( various mutants available, markers, presence of… Read More »

Classification of Insects

By | April 17, 2021

Considering huge diversity in number and form among various living beings (plants and Animals) on our planet , its rather impossible to study them in detail, unless divided into different categories based on the differences and similarities between them. As many of you are aware that classification of plants and animals is not something of… Read More »

Imaginal discs in Insects

By | April 17, 2021

Imaginal discs are very fascinating structures observed in larva of holometabolous insects and can be defined as Clusters of undifferentiated embryonic cells in holometabolous insects that proliferate during larval stages and then differentiate during the pupal stage upon induction by ecdysone but in the absence of juvenile hormone. In one of the recent post dealing… Read More »