BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
IMPROVEMENT IN FOOD PRODUCTION
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Question
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Worker Bee
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Queen bee
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Male bee
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Students should indicate that other than mating with the queen bee, the drones do not contribute as much to the beehive as the other bees. Thus, they are the least valuable to the well-being of the beehive and the first to be kicked out.
Detailed explanation-2: -Worker bees are all female, and are all offspring of the queen. But there are males in the hive called drones. Drones fly off to reproduce with other young queens who will start a new colony. There are three types of honey bee within every hive: workers, drones, and a queen.
Detailed explanation-3: -Of the 60, 000 bees in a hive, almost 99% of them are female! Female honey bees, or worker bees, make all of the decisions in the hive and do all of the work. There are a couple hundred male bees in a hive, but they don’t do much but sit around and eat food.
Detailed explanation-4: -A hive contains three different types of honey bees: the queen, the workers, and the drones.