Honeybees produce their young ones only by sexual reproduction. Inspite of this in a colony of bees we find both haploid and diploid individuals. Name the haploid and dipoid individuals in the colony and analyse the reasons behind their formation.

Explanation

Reduction division (meiosis) is associated with sexual reproduction.
The reasons for this are:
a. Since sexual reproduction involves the fusion of two types of gametes (male and female), they must have haploid number of chromosomes.
b. The cell (meiocyte) which gives rise to gametes often has diploid number of chromosomes and it is only by reducing the number by half that we can get haploid gametes.
c.Reduction division also ensures maintenance of constancy of chromosome number from generation to generation.