Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Strategies for enhancement in Food production

Question:
Assertion: The honey bee queen copulates only once in her life time.
Reasoning:: The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.
Options:
Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.
Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.
If both Assertion (A) and Reasoning are false (F )
Correct Answer:
Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.
Explanation:
It is said that the queen gets mated only in her life but in a single chance of mating. After mating the queen lays eggs in one brood cell. The larvae emerge out from both the fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs. Thus the larvae from the unfertilized eggs form the drones while the worker are developed from the larvae of fertilized eggs.