"They breed all year and give a new generation every twelve days." Morgan and his team created the "Fly Room" in Columbia’s Schermerhorn Hall, breeding millions of flies for use in genetic studies.

Although Gregor Mendel developed his groundbreaking principles of ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous "fly room" at Columbia University was the site of ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan began his career when genetics was not a defined ... Incredibly, Morgan tackled these questions with the help of the common fruit fly. Young naturalist. Morgan was born on ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...