Given below are two statements.
Statement I: Queen bees can produce sons without mating.
Statement II: Drones cannot have sons, but can have grandsons.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

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Both statement I and statement II are correct.

Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

Statement I is correct but statement II is incorrect.

Statement I is incorrect but statement II is correct.

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Statement I is correct. Queen bees can produce sons without mating. Queen bees are fertile females which can lay unfertilised eggs. Such eggs develop into male drones by parthenogenesis.

Statement II is correct. Drones cannot have sons, but can have grandsons. Drones are male bees which mate with queen bee. The fertilised eggs, the queen bees then lay develop into females. While the females that are thus produced can mate with the drone to have a male offspring. Thus, it can be said drones cannot have sons, but can have grandsons.

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