Word: pigmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sperti found Sister Mary Jordan Carroll a "brilliant student," quick-fingered and witty as well. She and Professor J. C. Fardon did an astute experiment on the eye colors of Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically renowned fruit fly. They made spectroscopic analyses of the pigments, found there was only one basic, sepia-hued pigment which was present in varying amounts under the control of the genes. In 1938 Sister Mary Jordan Carroll's paper on this work attracted wide notice...