Drosophila melanogaster

That's the latin name for a fruitfly. Fruitfly is an inside joke for me and fatboy, because I often quote a Finnish science magazine which more than often has something about fruitflies. That's because fruitflies are the scientists' pets. They (scientists) know everything about fruitflies. Their behavioral, their genes, and what the genes do... So they've played around with the genes, creating fruitflies which can produce light and have X-ray vision. Fruitflies are indeed the most studied race in the world. Humankind knows more about fruitflies than it knows about itself.

Why? Because fruitflies are everywhere. They're easy to breed and catch. Just put a half eaten apple on the table and wait for two days. The apple will be SWARMED by these tiny little insects. Not even Raid (tm) works on them, God knows I have tried. Plus, they're small and simple so their genepool isn't very big. The only other alternative that I can think of is a tick. But who would want to hunt for ticks? Except tick catchers (real occupation, btw) who earn a bit more than a guy working at McDonald's (that was also true)

I think that's kind of sad. Sad because scientists should have much more important things to do than play with fruitflies. I think the reason why we don't have a working cure for the most deadliest diseases, is because fruitflies don't have AIDS or cancer.