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Honeybees follow the haplodiploidy system, where females are diploid (fertilized eggs) and males are haploid (unfertilized eggs). This follows from NCERT principle where relation explains outcome clearly for students.
Ref: NCERT Biology Textbook for Class XI and XII (Botany section), Chapter: Biology - Botany portion covering relevant concept, Topic: Plant structure, physiology and applications.
Honeybees and other Hymenoptera utilize haplodiploid sex determination without sex chromosomes. Queens lay fertilized diploid eggs which develop into females, either reproductive queens or sterile workers depending on nutrition, and unfertilized haploid eggs developing via arrhenotokous parthenogenesis into haploid males drones. Mechanism involves complementary sex determiner locus csd; heterozygosity produces females through functional feminizer transformer splicing, hemizygosity or homozygosity yields males. No X, Y or Z system exists. Colony controls sex ratio by controlling fertilization, representing remarkable genetic and behavioral integration.
Ref: Gilbert, Developmental Biology, 12th ed., Chapter 6: Haplodiploidy and csd in honeybee sex determination.
Honeybees follow the haplodiploidy system, where females are diploid (fertilized eggs) and males are haploid (unfertilized eggs).
Ref: NCERT Class 12 Biology Chapter 4: Principles of Inheritance and Variation Sex Determination Mutation and Genetic Disorders
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