Never thought about the grandfather thing. I organized many father son weekends for ants and noone ever attended. Maybe grandfather son weekend is the way to go?
Flying Ants
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 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 2 months ago
But, that’s sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Is the facepalm because now the people want to know more about the ants?
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I met a guy at a bar once who was about ants at a bar one time. Wouldn’t stop talking about them. To get him to put the dimorphism into perspective I asked how Lage the women in the bar would be if the human ratio was like ants.
It was cool because I’d never gotten the opportunity to watch someone develop a fetish in real time before.
halvar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Aight now tell me about this cuz I don’t have a clue about what this should be
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy
xerx@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wow. Thank you. This is an educational read.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Scientist: I wonder what should I call this sex-determination system where males are haploid and females are diploids…
Boom. Haplodiploidy. I’m so good at this.
witty_username@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Arrhenotokous Parthenogenesis