Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production Question 96

Question: In honey bees the drones (males) are produced from [MP PMT 1996, 99; CPMT 1999]

Options:

A) Unfertilized eggs

B) Fertilized eggs

C) Larvae fed by royal jelly

D) Fasting larvae

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Answer:

Correct Answer: A

Solution:

The queen after fertilization lays fertilized and unfertilized eggs both.

From unfertilized eggs male bees emerge which are known as Drones.