var fDesc=new Array(); fDesc[0] = "This breeding simulation is designed for senior students (16 ) and encourages the development of skills in critical thinking and problem solving as well as promoting an understanding of the scientific method. As a teaching tool, Drosophila Genetics Lab can be used in a variety of teaching strategies.

Students visually count, categorize and record the individual flies, making this a realistic science experience rather than a secondhand data exercise. Teachers now have the option to allow the students to use an auto-count system to count up to 100,000 flies in seconds, allowing longer experiments, such as those including the calculation of linkage distances, to be completed quickly."; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }