Teaching Guide: Fruit Fly Behavior Lab
This teaching guide helps educators to integrate the Fruit Fly Behavior Lab simulation into an advanced high school biology lesson. Students will develop experimental design and data analysis skills by setting up a virtual choice chamber experiment and completing a chi-square test to determine if their observed counts are statistically significant.
Topics
- animal behavior
- AP Bio
- AP Biology
- AP
- behavior
- behavioral response
- chemotaxis
- chi-square equation
- chi-square test
- chi-square value
- chi-square
- choice chamber
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Drosophila
- evolutionary success
- fitness
- fruit fly
- innate behavior
- innate response
- learned behavior
- taxis