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Explain sex determination mechanism in honey bees.

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(1) Sex determination in Honey bee is based on the number of set of chromosomes an individual receives.
(2) An offspring formed from the union of a sperm and an egg develops as a female [Queen or worker]. They are diploid having 32 chromosomes.
(3) An unfertilized egg develops as a male (drone) by means of parthenogenesis. Males have half number of chromosomes than the female i.e, 16 chromosomes. This is called haplo-diploid sex determination.
(4) Males produce sperms by mitosis, they do not have a father and cannot have sons both have grand father and can have grand sons.
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