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Honeybees produce their young ones only by sexual reproduction. In spite of this, in a colony of bees we find both haploid and diploid individuals. Name the haploid and diploid individuals in the colony and analyse the reasons behind their formation.

A honeybee hive has three kinds of members which are

1. Diploid Queen which are fertile females.


2. Worker bees which are sterile females.


3. Drones which are haploid males.


4. When the male and female gametes combine to produce off springs they could either produce diploid female or haploid males.


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In haploid organisms that undergo sexual reproduction, name the stage in the life cycle when meiosis occurs. Give reasons for your answer.

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The number of taxa exhibiting asexual reproduction is drastically reduced in higher plants (angiosperms) and higher animals (vertebrates) as compared with lower groups of plants and animals. Analyse the possible reasons for this situation.

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With which type of reproduction do we associate the reduction division? Analyse the reasons for it.

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Is it possible to consider vegetative propagation observed in certain plants like Bryophyllum, water hyacinth, ginger etc., as a type of asexual reproduction? Give two/three reasons.