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Given figures represent three different castes of a colony of honeybees.
Select the incorrect statement regarding these.

A

P is the worker bee which is a sterile female.

B

Q is the queen which lays both fertilised (2n) and unfertilised (n) eggs.

C

R is the drone which is a fertile male.

D

P and Q emerge from unfertilised eggs. While R emerges from fertilised eggs.

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The correct Answer is:
D
In the given figures, P, Q and R represent worker bee, queen bee and drone bee persent in a colony of honeybees. Drones (R) are produced by parthenogenesis, I,.e., they emerga from unfertilised eggs whereas worker (P) and queen (Q) bees emerge from fertilised eggs,
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