Can flies get drunk?!

Question: We caught one in the sugar bowl, and he sured looked that way. We have no alcohol in the house.

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Answers: We caught one in the sugar bowl, and he sured looked that way. We have no alcohol in the house.

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Fruit flies get "drunk," just like humans, when exposed to large amounts of alcohol and may in future help to explain why some people are genetically predisposed to alcohol abuse. Humans and fruit flies respond to alcohol in a very similar way at the gene level, according to a study published today in the open access journal Genome Biology.

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