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Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants

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How to Make Babies in Yellow Crazy Ants

In your standard run of the mill sexual reproduction, a male sex cell with half a compliment of chromosomes fuses with a female sex cell. From there, it's plain old cell division and the making of a new individual. Animals have that two copy of each chromosome thing going on in every one of their cells,. But the males arise from unfertilized eggs and only have one set of chromosomes in each cell.

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