off the wall question....

Started by psbeekeeper, August 17, 2010, 11:14:56 PM

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psbeekeeper

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??

buzzbee

Drones come from unfertilized eggs of a queen. I think the genetics would be of the drones mother and "grandparents" so to speak.

Michael Bush

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.
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