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Q. The unfertilised eggs in honeybees develop into

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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The sex-determination in honeybee is based on the number of sets of chromosomes an individual receives. An offspring formed from the union of a sperm and an egg develops as a female (queen or worker) and an unfertilised egg develops as a male (drone) by means of parthenogenesis.