Question 3

(Multiple Choice)

In the bees, ants, and wasps (Hymenoptera), female workers are very closely related to their reproducing sisters only if their mother has mated with just one male because


A) they will share exactly the same genetic information that makes up the paternal contribution to their genome.
B) all of the daughters of a queen receive one-half their genome from their mother, whose eggs are genetically three-fourths alike.
C) all females with the same mother are the product of a union between a haploid egg and a diploid sperm.
D) three-fourths of the genomes of sisters come from their mother, and one-fourth come from their father.

Answer

A