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(biology, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.
Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.
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Haplodiploid means (biology, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.
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Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.
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