Nurturing Life Sciences
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#XL - T Zoology
Females are more related to their sisters (0.75) than they would be to their own offspring (0.50).
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In haplodiploid organisms, males are haploid, and females are diploid. Consider the relatedness diagram shown below. Female A has a full-sister, Y, who has a daughter, B. The relatedness between A and B is ___________.
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Reciprocal altruism
Cases of altruism are known to exist between unrelated individuals. What drives this phenomenon is a “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” behavior called reciprocal altruism.
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A female vampire bat will regurgitate food to an unrelated female if needed, because at other times she may be the recipient of such a meal.
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