Short Stuff: Fruit Flies, Why?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why we do so much scientific testing on fruit flies? Turns out they make better models for humans than you’d think.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:34.3	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:35.9	I'm Josh Clark.
0:37.2	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's buzzing around out there somewhere.
0:42.7	I'm sorry.
0:43.9	And this is short stuff like I think I said.
0:47.4	Yeah, the Cheatsy fly.
0:49.3	Something that if you took high school biology, you talked about these little fellas.
0:53.8	The what fly?
0:55.6	The Cheatsy fly.
0:56.6	I thought we were talking about fruit flies.
0:59.0	Isn't that the Cheatsy fly?
1:00.0	I don't think so.
1:01.6	Is that different?
1:02.6	Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
1:03.6	I always thought the Cheatsy fly was the same thing as the fruit fly now.
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