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Describe Haplodiploid sex determination system in Honey Bees.

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The off springs from the union of sperm and egg develops female or queen. Unfertilized egg develops male (drone) by-parthenogenesis.
Females are diploid having 32 chromosomes, produce egg by meiosis, where as males are haploid having 16 chromosomes, sperms are produced by mitosis.
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