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How much chromosomes do the drones of honeybees have? Name the type of cell division that occurs during the formation of spermatozoa in them.

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The drones of honey bees are haploid in ploidy so they have 16 chromosomes. Now as they are haploid so to produce spermatozoa mitotic cell division is used (i.e. mitosis)

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