A female aphid reproduces parthenogenetically to create a colony of 10 clones of herself. Five of these individuals become "soldiers" and do not reproduce; instead, they defend the other five reproductive individuals from predatory insects

Consider a single soldier and a
single reproductive female. From the soldier's perspective, each of that reproductive female's
offspring are genetically equivalent to the soldier's own:
A. siblings.
B. offspring.
C. nieces/nephews.
D. first cousins.
E. grandchildren.


B

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