Female honey bees are diploid and male honey bees are haploid. the haploid males produce sperm and can successfully mate with diploid females. fertilized eggs develop into females and unfertilized eggs develop into males. how does the process of sperm production in male honey bees differ from sperm production in other animals?

This means that sperm production in male honey bees does not involve meiosis like in other animals. Meiosis is responsible for halving the number of chromosomes set from autosomal cells. Therefore, in male honey bees, the process of mitosis is also used to produce sperm.

in 1859, charles darwin set out his theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation for adaptation and speciation. he defined natural selection as the "principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved".