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Query:

Subject: What effect would such a low chromosome number have on sexual reproduction?

Date: Mon Oct 15 10:32:53 2001
Posted by Andrew Radue
Grade level: undergrad School: UW-Stevens Point
City: Stevens Point State/Province: Wi Country: Usa
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 1003156373.Ge
Message:

Bees and anrs have a haploid-diploid system for determining sex. The queeen can 
with hold sprem in her seminal receptacle and the unfertilized egg develops 
into  a female. One species of ant has just two chromosomes in the diploid male 
and one in the haploid female.


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