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Post by chocimonster on Feb 6, 2012 1:08:21 GMT 1
I was thinking and I though how do we know that all worker ants are female? Has someone ever done surgery on an ant to check its gender? If workers are in fertile should they even be classed in a gender?
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Post by icewhyte on Feb 6, 2012 1:11:59 GMT 1
Yeh I've checked, they are all female So do you think that people that are infertile shouldn't be a gender either?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2012 3:29:50 GMT 1
There would be no point in having a sterile worker caste with two genders. All workers are the same sex, all workers have incomplete female organs and no male organs. There is the rare and peculiar case of gynandromorphism, which is when an animal grows to be, split laterally, half male and half female. This only ever seems to happen to queen/males, though.
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Post by Myrm on Feb 6, 2012 7:47:18 GMT 1
I was thinking and I though how do we know that all worker ants are female? Has someone ever done surgery on an ant to check its gender? If workers are in fertile should they even be classed in a gender? Myrmecologists/entomologists know that workers are female because, yes, they have conducted microscopic examinations and surgery. Good ant/insect text books show these pictures and diagrams.
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Post by chocimonster on Feb 6, 2012 9:18:58 GMT 1
Oh right thank you for the replies.
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