• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    1 个月前

    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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      1 个月前

      Another comment mentioned it, but the DNA is 99.9-100% in common. Ants have haplodiploidy, so the females and males aren’t just male/female versions of the same DNA.

      Also, if a queen dies, her own worker larva are raised into new queens. So the meme is just silly overall.