Haplodiploidy - sex determination in honeybees

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1. 1 Principles of Inheritance and Variation Hard
   Which of the following statements are true with reference to the sex-determination in honeybees? I. An offspring formed from the union of a sperm and an egg, develops as a female (queen or worker). II. An unfertilized egg develops as a male by parthenogenesis. III. A male has half the number of chromosomes than that of a female. IV. Males produce sperms by meiosis. V. Honeybees have a haplodiploid sex-determination system. Choose the CORRECT answer from the options given below:
   A II, III, IV and V only B I, II, III and IV only C I, II, IV and V only D I, II, III and V only
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