Refer to the Figure

question 19

Multiple Choice

Refer to the figure.
These results demonstrate that

• A) policing behavior of workers increases the reproductive skew between queens.
• B) workers with higher degrees of relatedness exhibit less effective policing behavior.
• C) the better workers are at policing, the less workers are able to gain direct fitness.
• D) queen overproduction is more likely to occur in colonies with low policing and a large number of workers' sons.

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