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31/12/2021 7:16 pm
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Honeybees produce their young ones only by sexual reproduction. Inspite of this, in a colony of bees we find both haploid and diploid individuals. Name the haploid and diploid individuals in the colony and analyse the reasons behind their formation.
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31/12/2021 7:18 pm
The colony of honey bees has three types of members:
(i) Diploid queen are fertile females,
(ii) Worker bees are sterile females and
(iii) Drones are haploid males.
An offspring formed from the union of a sperm and an egg develops as a female (queen or worker), and an unfertilized egg develops as a male (drone) by means of parthenogenesis.
This means that the males have half the number of chromosomes than that of a female.