The Genetic Code of the Bee

It is scientifically established that all the bees in the world have the same number of chromosomes-and that never changes. Male and female animals generally have the same number of chromosomes.

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It is scientifically established that all the bees in the world have the same number of chromosomes-and that never changes. Male and female animals generally have the same number of chromosomes. But the bee is slightly different: the male bee has 16 single chromosomes and the female bee 16 pairs.1

♂♀16SURAH 16 · 16 سُورَةُ ٱلنَّحْلِ

The bee is thus different in this respect, that of chromosome number. This difference is indicated in the Qur'an thus: (Allah knows the truth.) The Surah "Nahl," meaning bee, is the sixteenth Surah of the Qur'an, and “16” is the number of chromosomes these animals possess.

◉ Surat an-Nahl, meaning "Bee," is the 16th Surah.

◉ The bee has 16 chromosomes.

Footnotes

  1. Mim: 3, elif: 8, dal: 1, te: 0 ↩

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