You’re mixing being a clone with being the same individual and sharing a mind, which are completely different things.
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wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Fun fact: must ant species’ workers are 0.01% genetically different than each other (ie. queen[s]:mate[s] ratio), and therefore are closer to clones than individual consciousnesses, strictly speaking. ☝🏼🤓
morto@piefed.social 18 hours ago
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Nah, the former is scientifically sound, and the latter is SciFi. 😝
kevin2107@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
clones exists look at sheep and you
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Are you high, or did you mix up the order of former/latter?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
This is wrong. They get the same DNA father side because male ants are haploid (meaning they have one chromosome of each instead of a pair like diploids) but they get different genes from their mother so they are more closely related than human siblings but no where near your made up number. They are still 25% different
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
None of y’all used citations so everyone is wrong!
lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
This is not how anything works. I’m giving you free information by repeating stuff I learned at school and university. If you want to be sure, look it up. This is far from hidden knowledge. I couldn’t care less if I convince a stranger on the internet.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
No.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
You get an F! No passing grade! Citation is needed or you will not pass this class young man!
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
The males are born of the same queen they’ll made with, Doolittle. FFS.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Fertilized eggs are female, unfertilized eggs male. That’s why they are haploid. They are not going to mate their mother. Go read a book.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
So they’re boba Fett
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Some a boba-sized, even!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s funny how different hypothetical scenarios already exist in nature.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
I’m sorry to inform you that the fact is made up. It’s more like 25% in the case of ants. I wrote more in another comment.
But there are greenfly who can reproduce sexually or asexually. In the former case, they have two parents – boring. But females can just have daughters with the same genetics. They don’t lie eggs but are live bearing so they get pregnant when they choose to. And there isn’t an age limit. In fact they can be pregnant and their daughter is already pregnant before birth, all genetically identical.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
So many! Too many to count, one might even say!
Redjard@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
You should look into the percentage of difference, friend. These are not “twins” by any means.
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Are you aware of what identical twins are?
Redjard@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
Then, other than their genetic code, what else is copied between individuals? Is their brain fully encoded in their chromosomes? Does the queen ant go and copy the same brain into all worker ants? Do the worker ants, when pupating, connect to the colonies wifi network and download the current neuronal image for network booting?
Do they share their fingerprints (for example hair placement) too?
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Insects are complex and different in how they process information. Ants are smart for insects, but still not fully individuals in the same way we look at mamamilian brains.
wildlifeinformer.com/do-ants-have-brains/
The simple answer is thoughts are pheromones. Essentially one ant shares it’s individual experiences with the entire colony and the colony all works for the same goals. So yeah they kinda connect to the colony organic wifi.
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
The argument is that ant colonies are better understood as organisms themselves with the individuals acting more like limbs.