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Process of Sexual Reproduction for honey bees

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Process of Asexual Reproduction for honey bees

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The typical story of reproduction is that males and females of an animal species do it sexually. Generally, that's what honeybees do, too. Sperm from a male drone fertilizes a queen's eggs, and she sends out a chemical signal, or pheromone, that renders worker bees, which are all female, sterile when they detect it.

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In the Cape bee, female worker bees are able to reproduce asexually: they lay eggs that are essentially fertilized by their own DNA, which develop into new worker bees. The team sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees and compared them with other populations of honeybees that reproduce normally

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