Manipal Medical Manipal Medical Solved Paper-2013

  • question_answer
    In a colony of honey bee, male drones are onginated by

    A)  diptoid parthenogenesis

    B)  cyclic parthenogenesis

    C)  arrhenotoky

    D)  thelotoky

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

     Drones are male honey bees. They are developed from unfertilised female eggs, This phenomenon is called arrhenotoky. Parthenogenesis   means   development   of unfertilised eggs or haploid eggs into young ones as development of drones female bee develops from diploid fertilised ovum,


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