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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: psbeekeeper on August 17, 2010, 11:14:56 PM

Title: off the wall question....
Post by: psbeekeeper on August 17, 2010, 11:14:56 PM
what do you consider would happen if a queen were to mate with a drone that was laid  from an unfertilized queen?  Would the genes from that queen be??
Title: Re: off the wall question....
Post by: buzzbee on August 17, 2010, 11:26:47 PM
Drones come from unfertilized eggs of a queen. I think the genetics would be of the drones mother and "grandparents" so to speak.
Title: Re: off the wall question....
Post by: Michael Bush on August 18, 2010, 01:15:44 AM
Exactly the same whether the drone was unfertilized by the queens choice (as all drones are) or unfertilized because she failed to fertilize it because of lack of sperm.  There is no difference in the genetics of the drone.  Either way it is a  haploid organism with a set of single genes randomly selected from only the queens double set of genes.