Shirley, you can't be serious
Submitted 23 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
KenOh@feddit.online 11 hours ago
We live in a society
for ants
5ha99y@lemmus.org 7 hours ago
It is in their nature to work like this. They are specialised drones serving that exact purpose. The queen is btw no different. It is the DNA housing drone that produces all kind of drones. Their brains are pheromonally connected. Most possibly they share one brain (and consciousness) and are equipped for some brain parts “getting lost”. It is anthropomorphizing to assume that they act like a human kingdom, where the queen (or king) is the upmost of all things to achieve in one or the other way. Ants are also all female. Only drones for mating are male.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
The thing that makes him a clown is thinking the queen is in charge.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
But like who is in charge?
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
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her.
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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.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 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
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jaykrown@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
_stranger_@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I love how the first clown makeup iteration was built in by nature of this being a false color EM
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I ant serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Like the dogstar? Man I wish my parents had named me something cool…
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
But the proteins compel me.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You could also make meme about queen working hard in hope for retirement :)
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
viertesauge@feddit.org 21 hours ago
what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 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. ☝🏼🤓
Redjard@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
You should look into the percentage of difference, friend. These are not “twins” by any means.
morto@piefed.social 17 hours ago
You’re mixing being a clone with being the same individual and sharing a mind, which are completely different things.
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Nah, the former is scientifically sound, and the latter is SciFi. 😝
lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 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 14 hours ago
None of y’all used citations so everyone is wrong!
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
The males are born of the same queen they’ll made with, Doolittle. FFS.
solidheron@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
So they’re boba Fett
wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Some a boba-sized, even!
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s funny how different hypothetical scenarios already exist in nature.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 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 16 hours ago
So many! Too many to count, one might even say!