Question

Assertion: The honey bee queen copulates only ones in her life time.
Reason: The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.

• A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
• B. Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
• C. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
• D. Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Queen is the only fertile female in the beehive, having immensely developed ovaries. She lives for several successive years hying about 2000 or more eggs a day. The queen has a remarkable capacity of controlling the fertilization of its eggs. A fertilized egg is laid in a worker or queen cell, while an unfertilized egg in a drone cell, the latter develops parthenogenetically. The queen mates only once in her lifetime. The sperms stored in her spermatheca fertilize her eggs as long as she lives.