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.
Reasoning:: The honey bee queen can lay fertilized as well as unfertilized eggs.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
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.