Assertion: The honey bee queen copulates only ones in her life time.
Reason: The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.
(a) If both Assertion and Reason are correct and the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion.
(b) If both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not a correct explanation of the Assertion.
(c) If the Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
(d) If both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
(e) If the Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is correct.
Correct option: (a)
Explanation:
Honey bee queen copulates only once in her life span (nupital flight) and stores all the sperms in her seminal receptacles. It depends on her whether she releases sperms while laying eggs or not, so there are both fertilized and unfertilized eggs.