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Parakeet Caper: An awkward entry into a city fair contest has the judges baffled. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to determine if this entry is a fraud, or if it is a legitimate contestant in this budgie baffler. A Thorn Among Roses: A radical terrorist group has found a way to use roses to create a deadly biochemical weapon. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go into their headquarters undercover and calculate how much time there is before this group becomes a threat. Mix-Up at the Maternity Ward: The Caulfield's and the Joad's think their babies have been switched in the nursery of the Abruzzi Hospital. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use genetics to determine if this is true, and prove to the parents that they have the right babies. Mission: Drosophila: Evil terrorists have released a new strain of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) that is destroying the grapes in the wine country of California. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to analyze these flies and engineer a new breed of flies that will destroy these pests. A "real-time" chat room where you and other GMF agents can swap tips and tricks about the missions as you solve them. Do you have a really hot tip, hint, or shortcut that you think would be valuable to other GMF members?  If you do, or if you want to view hints that other agents have posted, click here to go to the GMF Agent Hint Log. This page is full of links to other web sites that you might find helpful.  The links on this page represent a lot of information relevant to each individual mission, as well as information about genetics in general.  Click here to see what's out there.

If this is your first time to this site, or you are having a little trouble getting around in here, you might want to click here for a little help. The notebook is a special feature of the Mission: Drosophila web site that allows you to copy-and-paste any information you've found on the Internet to a special file that is always available while you solve the missions.  Click here to find out how to use it. This link explains the process of solving a mission, how to successfully complete a mission and move on to the next one. The missions are increasingly more difficult as they progress. Because of this, you should complete the missions in order (i.e. complete mission 1 before moving on to mission 2, 3, etc.). Click here for details. This site, as with most other sites, is best experienced using Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later. Click here to find out what else you need to properly view this site. Who made this site? How did they make it? Why did they make it? Who helped them? Click here to find out the answers to these questions and a whole lot more. Do you like this site? Do you have any suggestions to make it better? Know of any other good genetics sites we should link to? Click here to drop us a line and let us know what you think.

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