I do not think that the drone can carry  a full genetic pattern of the
queen because a queen has a full set of paired cromosomes and the drone
has ony one set or haploid number of crom. A drone can display a trait
from his grandfather that his mother did not.
  Some of you guys out there that write far better than I please explain
this process where most people can undrstand it.  I do believe  that
this is very very important for most beekeepers to understand.  This is
very basic in understanding beekeeping.
BUD
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