AIIMS 2004
- Exam
- AIIMS
- Year
- 2004
- Subject
- Zoology
- Chapter
- Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
AIIMS 2004 · Zoology · Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
Assertion : The honey bee queen copulates only once in her life...
Assertion : The honey bee queen copulates only once in her life time.
Reason : The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.
Options
- AIf both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
- BIf both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
- CIf assertion is true but reason is false
- DIf both assertion and reason are false.
Correct answer
B. If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
Step-by-step solution
Queen is the only fertile female in beehive, having immensely developed ovaries. She lives for several successive years laying about 2000 or more eggs a day and upto about 1,500000 eggs during her life time. The queen has a remarkable capacity of controlling the fertilization of its eggs. A fertilized egg is laid in a worker or queen cell or honey comb, while an unfertilized egg in a drone cell, the latter develops parthogenetically. The queen mates only once in a life time. The sperms stored in her spermatheca fertilize her eggs as long as she lives.