Nurturing Life Sciences
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#XL - T Zoology
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Degree of genetic relatedness
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Altruism in social insects(haplodiploidy) Workers, rarely reproduce themselves but instead help one reproductive female (the queen) to raise offspring, a phenomenon called eusociality.
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In the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps), Females develop from the queen’s fertilized eggs and are diploid. Males develop from the queen’s unfertilized eggs and are haploid—their sperm are genetically identical
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Females are more related to their sisters (0.75) than they would be to their own offspring (0.50).