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Sex Determination in Honey Bees

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In this video, we step into the world of honey bees and find out why some of them don't have fathers, while everyone has grandfathers! Created by Sulagna Das.

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Posted 6 months ago. Direct link to St0dent's post “Interesting, how did scie...”
Interesting, how did scientists figure out that the bees that were killed off at the larval stage were diploid male bees?
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  maybe its an eg of lethal allelism
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