Comment on Flying Ants
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
“Within ants, females (queens, workers) are produced from fertilised eggs (which contain two sets of chromosomes) and are diploid, while males are produced from unfertilised eggs (which contain a single set of chromosomes) and are haploid.”
So male ants are more like eggs with legs.
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
But, that’s sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
an unfertilized egg is just an egg.
like chicken eggs are unfertilized eggs because no sperm fertilized them.
If male ants are derived solely from the female gamete, the ovum, or egg, then male ants are eggs with legs, which is good, because it rhymes.
sperm is a male gamete, a different little thing than the female gamete, an egg.