Quote Originally Posted by Thymallus View Post
Usual nomenclature is that capital letters represent the dominant allele and the question states capital Y is yellow, meaning Yy will be be Yellow. Drones only have one allele (as haploid) so if brown they are all lower case y.
It's very badly phrased question...shoot the examiner.
Yes, shoot the examiner. I understand the convention that the uppercase letter is dominant - but in this case it is wrong. Yellow is recessive, so yellow cannot be capital Y, and she can't be Yy. As I understood it, Dzierzen used Italian bees to prove parthenogenesis precisely because yellow is recessive (using cordovans). Or are there cases where yellow isn't recessive?
Kitta