<P> A drone is a male bee . Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have stingers and do not gather nectar and pollen . A drone's primary role is to mate with a fertile queen . </P> <P> Drones carry only one type of allele at each chromosomal position, because they are haploid (containing only one set of chromosomes from the mother). During the development of eggs within a queen, a diploid cell with 32 chromosomes divides to generate haploid cells called gametes with 16 chromosomes . The result is a haploid egg, with chromosomes having a new combination of alleles at the various loci . This process is called arrhenotokous parthenogenesis or simply arrhenotoky . </P>

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