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What is royal jelly? How does it differ from bee bread?

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Royal jelly is a protein rich food secreted by hypophyseal glands of young workers for feeding the queen.
Bee bread is prepared by adult workers for all other members of the colony. Bee bread is a mixture of honey and pollen.

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(i) The queen bee and the worker bees develop from fertilised eggs and are sexually females.
(ii) Males(drones) develop parthenogenetically from unfertilised eggs.
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(i) The queen bee and the worker bees develop from fertilized eggs and are sexually females.
(ii) Males (drones) develop parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs.
(iii) Queen bee feeds upon royal jelly and the worker bees feed upon bee bread.

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Q. In honeybee, royal jelly is secreted from which of the following gland?

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(C) Nectar (3) Tail wagging
(D) Bee dance (4) Arrhenotoky
(E) Drone (5) Egg-laying
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