Our research project is called Drosophila as a model organism - how alcohol affects the vinegar fly. It consists of analyzing the Drosophila melanogaster and studying how alcohol affects their organisms.
Since the vinegar fly has been used as a study model for many years and it is very helpful for us to understand how the cells of the human body work, we do this research project to test it ourselves.
The aim of this research project is to prove if alcohol affects the flies the same way that it affects humans. To prove it we’ve done some experiments where we calculated how long it took a fly to move 7 cm inside a tube and if it moved in a straight line, depending on the percentage of alcohol it had ingested.
After doing these experiments many times until we achieved precise results. We have seen that if the percentage of alcohol increases the motor skills of the flies decrease because it takes them longer to move and they walk in a semi-circle or sideways. In conclusion, they don't follow a straight line if the alcohol increases.
We have also learned that the effects of alcohol on flies are the same as in humans.