Question

drones of honeybee colony are haploids while both workers and queen are diploid.why?

Answer 1

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Female honey bee usually lays two types of eggs - fertilised eggs and unfertilised eggs. Fertilized eggs give rise to female honey bees among which those who are fed with royal jelly become fertile female or queen and others become sterile female or worker bees. The honey bees that are borne from unfertilized eggs are made honey bees or drone.

A drone is a male bee which is produced from an unfertilized egg, by the process known as parthenogenesis. Hence, drones are haploid in nature.

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