Comment on Shirley, you can't be serious
hansolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago-
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They’re more or less clones, the queen is “in charge” because she’s a linchpin to the colony keeping going genetically.
Comment on Shirley, you can't be serious
hansolo@lemmy.today 19 hours agoher.
They’re more or less clones, the queen is “in charge” because she’s a linchpin to the colony keeping going genetically.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 15 hours 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
hansolo@lemmy.today 4 hours 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.