🐝 Haplodiploidy: How Bee Sex Is Determined by Chromosomes

Watch a honeybee comb fill cell by cell as the queen lays eggs: fertilized diploid eggs become female unless they are homozygous at the csd gene, in which case they become non-viable diploid drones, while unfertilized haploid eggs always become males.

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