in theory yes but at the same time you would have to reverse enginere it and have it reject the fruit flys dna strands
Lifespan - could be due to predators and food intake
Three of the four nitrogenous bases that make up RNA — adenine (A), cytosine (C), and guanine (G) — are also found in DNA. In RNA, however, a base called uracil (U) replaces thymine (T) as the complementary nucleotide to adenine (Figure 3). ... (Remember, DNA is almost always in a double-stranded helical form.)
Radioactive decay is measured in half-lives.