NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -So there will be a total of 32 chromosomes, with 16 from the queen and 16 from the drone male mentioned above. This goes through fertilization and produces a female.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is because of haplodiploidy which is a sex determination system in which males develop parthenogenetically from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and the females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bees have a different number of chromosomes. Females, workers and queens have 32, 16 are contributed by the queen’s eggs and 16 come from the drones sperm. Since drones hatch from unfertilized eggs, they only have the 16 chromosomes that were in the egg.

Detailed explanation-4: -A queen’s eggs contain 16 chromosomes. Thus, since she herself has 32 chromosomes (remember, as a female she has chromosomes from both her mother and father), she cannot “squeeze” all her 32 chromosomes into each egg.

Detailed explanation-5: -Diploid females have 16 pairs, or 32, chromosomes, and haploid males have only 16 single chromosomes.