Vocabulary for biology 1. replication the breeding of two organisms that have genes for two different characteristics 2. mutation separation of dna's two polynucleotide chains, which act as a template for a new chain 3. codominance a copying mistake made during dna replication 4. multiple alleles when both genes are dominant and both are expressed in the phenotype 5. dihybrid cross when more than two alternatives for a gene exist

Some species of wasps are social. the queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. she builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. the workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. all of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer. which best describes this behavior? a)it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. b)it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. c)it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. d)it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.