Normally this sex determination system works fine. But if it has only one allele because it comes from an unfertilised egg, the bee becomes male. If this gene has two different alleles because it comes from a fertilised egg, the bee becomes female. When deciding whether to become male or female, a developing bee’s body looks at just a single gene called the “complementary sex determination” (CSD) gene. They spell disaster for a colony’s survival because they consume resources, cannot contribute to reproduction, and, like all Hymenopteran males, refuse to work. They are formed when a diploid (and so rightfully female) bee’s body is fooled into becoming male. ![]() These males are diploid, and usually sterile. ![]() Occasionally, though, a rarer and more sinister kind of male appears, over which the queen has no control. After mating, she can choose whether to fertilise any given egg, and so can control how many male and female offspring she has. The queen mates only once, but stores the sperm for the rest of her life. ![]() The queen can produce them without ever mating. After all, there are thousands of people out there who would currently kill for a tedious 9-5 office job – but that’s another movie, Señor.But male bees, known as drones, are normally “haploid”, produced from the queen’s unfertilised eggs and carrying one set of alleles. It’s also possible that this is the wrong time for this wannabe-corporate-skewering comedy and jokes about tedious 9-5 office jobs. The endless graphics and animations as Omar talks directly to camera, for example, are pretty distracting, and almost make you think that he’s secretly some sort of Terminator. He also runs into kindly big boss Braulio (Fernando Becerril) in the elevator, and after a minor emergency, the old man grants him the chance to develop an app which he intends to be (gasp!) free.Īll this is moderately convoluted, but things take a more messy turn when Omar and Maribel start falling for each other after a mystifyingly-unsubtitled karaoke night, and thereafter there’s blackmail, deceit and indeed the mutiny/rebelión of the title, which is set to a horribly-synthesised version of In The Hall Of The Mountain King.Īmiable work from Egelhaaf and Carreiro help save this from itself, and they’re cute enough to help you see past the jumbled scripting and all of director (and co-writer and co-producer) Morett’s cinematic trickeries. On his first day he meets almost all of them: scary superiors Tania Davich (Bárbara de Regil) and her sleazy brother Roberto (Mauricio Argüelles) office slackers Hugo (Cesar Rodriguez) and Quique (Carlos Macias Marquez) and Tania’s sweet if put-upon assistant Maribel (Anna Carreiro, who has an Anna Kendrick vibe). When Abuelo later survives a heart attack, Omar realises that he needs to get a proper job to pay for healthcare, and somehow wrangles a position at a tech company full of oh-so-familiar types. Omar Buendía (Gustavo Egelhaaf) is introduced dressed as a cartoony character named ‘Phony’, but although he’s racking up plenty of hits online (to the tune of a horribly-synthesised cover of Stayin’ Alive), his grumpy grandad Abuelo (Alejandro Suárez) sabotages the performance. Still, there’s enough here to enjoy anyway, even though some Mexican critics and commentators apparently disapprove greatly of such silliness, and believe that country’s film industry should be turning out ponderous dramas about grimly heavy contemporary themes.
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