Lol so many people in this thread have been brainwashed.
Do you y'all seriously believe in Ants??!??
It is in their nature to work like this. They are specialised drones serving that exact purpose. The queen is btw no different. It is the DNA housing drone that produces all kind of drones. Their brains are pheromonally connected. Most possibly they share one brain (and consciousness) and are equipped for some brain parts "getting lost". It is anthropomorphizing to assume that they act like a human kingdom, where the queen (or king) is the upmost of all things to achieve in one or the other way. Ants are also all female. Only drones for mating are male.
Where ants are concerned, drone refers specifically to the males who are born to mate and then die. The sterile females are called workers.
I love how the first clown makeup iteration was built in by nature of this being a false color EM
We live in a society
for ants
Holy shit why did I do this I'm laughing so hard right now
solo leveling arguably did ant-taur? better
Fun fact: most known ant species' workers are 0.01% genetically different than each other (ie. queen[s]:mate[s] ratio), and therefore are closer to clones than individual consciousnesses, strictly speaking. ☝🏼🤓
closer to clones than individual consciousnesses
You know that genetic clones are still individuals with independent brains, right?
Like twins don't have to take on the same profession or have the same personality. They're about as mentally different as any other random person.
You're mixing being a clone with being the same individual and sharing a mind, which are completely different things.
This is wrong. They get the same DNA father side because male ants are haploid (meaning they have one chromosome of each instead of a pair like diploids) but they get different genes from their mother so they are more closely related than human siblings but no where near your made up number. They are still 25% different
The males are born from the same queen they're spawned to mate with, Doolittle. FFS.
Fertilized eggs are female, unfertilized eggs male. That's why they are haploid. They are not going to mate their mother. Go read a book.
None of y'all used citations so everyone is wrong!
So they're boba Fett
The thing that makes him a clown is thinking the queen is in charge.
But like who is in charge?
her.
They're more or less clones, the queen is "in charge" because she's a linchpin to the colony keeping going genetically.
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
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.
Another comment mentioned it, but the DNA is 99.9-100% in common
And I answered that comment as well. Haplodiploidy leads to the 75% figure rather than 50% most siblings have.
Also, if a queen dies, her own worker larva are raised into new queens.
They get special food (gele royal). Ants have their role from birth, there is no changing caste. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the queen dying. Pretty sure it's more about the season of the year.
The meme says "the queen will notice me" which has nothing to do with who becomes the next queen.
I ant serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Like the dogstar? Man I wish my parents had named me something cool....
But the proteins compel me.
You could also make meme about queen working hard in hope for retirement :)
what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?
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