Question

Assertion (A): The honey bee queen copulates only once in life.

Reason (R): It can lay both fertilised and unfertilized eggs.

पर्याय

• Both A and R are true and 'R' is the correct explanation of A.

• Both A and R are true, but 'R' is not the correct explanation of A.

• A is true, but R is false.

• Both A and R are false.

Answer 1

Both A and R are true, but 'R' is not the correct explanation of A.

Explanation:

The sole fertile female in the beehive, Queen, has enormously expanded ovaries. She lays roughly 2000 or more eggs every day for numerous years in a row. The queen's ability to manage the fertilisation of her eggs is astonishing. In a worker or queen cell, a fertilised egg is laid, whereas an unfertilized egg is laid in a drone cell, which develops parthenogenetically. Only once throughout her life does the queen mate. As long as she lives, the sperms in her spermatheca fertilise her eggs.