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... prefer what tastes good to what is nutritionally best . Although flies ignore saccharine and all other artificial sweeteners , they are gluttonous over a rare sugar known as fucose . Given a choice of glucose or fucose , flies gorge ...
... prefer what tastes good to what is nutritionally best . Although flies ignore saccharine and all other artificial sweeteners , they are gluttonous over a rare sugar known as fucose . Given a choice of glucose or fucose , flies gorge ...
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... prefer to imbibe nectar , which is predominantly sugar , while females prefer meat , despite the nursery rhyme describing what little girls are made of . Do not allow the fact of the female's diet being in a state of decay trouble you ...
... prefer to imbibe nectar , which is predominantly sugar , while females prefer meat , despite the nursery rhyme describing what little girls are made of . Do not allow the fact of the female's diet being in a state of decay trouble you ...
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... prefer sugar . The females , on the other hand , prefer protein_to_sugar during the first six or eight days of life ; thereafter , they , too , prefer sugar . A series of simple dissections will reveal that it is during the first week ...
... prefer sugar . The females , on the other hand , prefer protein_to_sugar during the first six or eight days of life ; thereafter , they , too , prefer sugar . A series of simple dissections will reveal that it is during the first week ...
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