Comment on Shirley, you can't be serious

its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But like who is in charge?

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  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s not really such a thing as ‘in charge’ for ants. The colony is a single multi-body organism.

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYDhO36CW8&t=8s

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1. her.

  2. They’re more or less clones, the queen is “in charge” because she’s a linchpin to the colony keeping going genetically.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where is the idea that worker ants are clones coming from? They share about 75% of their genes. That’s a lot but far from more or less clones

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another comment mentioned it, but the DNA is 99.9-100% in common. Ants have haplodiploidy, so the females and males aren’t just male/female versions of the same DNA.

      Also, if a queen dies, her own worker larva are raised into new queens. So the meme is just silly overall.

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Another comment mentioned it, but the DNA is 99.9-100% in common

        And I answered that comment as well. Haplodiploidy leads to the 75% figure rather than 50% most siblings have.

        Also, if a queen dies, her own worker larva are raised into new queens.

        They get special food (gele royal). Ants have their role from birth, there is no changing caste. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the queen dying. Pretty sure it’s more about the season of the year.

        The meme says “the queen will notice me” which has nothing to do with who becomes the next queen.

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