Examples of 'diploid' in a sentence

Meaning of "diploid"

Diploid is an adjective used in biology to describe a cell or organism that has two sets of chromosomes. Humans, for example, are diploid organisms with 46 chromosomes in each cell
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  • Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid.
  • Of an organism, having diploid cells.
  • Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces.
  • A diploid cell.

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Both the diploid and triploid forms.
There was not even a trace of diploid variation.
Only the diploid loach is reproduces traditionally.
Fertilization restores the diploid number of chromosomes.
Diploid males were observed in rather high proportions.
So you still have a diploid number of chromosomes.
The diploid zygote resulting after fusion.
These mutations are usually recessive in diploid organisms.
A carpospore is a diploid spore produced by red algae.
Grow to be much larger than diploid cells.
The diploid pollen donor plants were ungrafted.
The zygote develops into a diploid organism.
It forms a diploid megaspore mother cell or megasporocyte.
Evolutionary emergence of the dominant diploid phase.
This diploid was designated the BlsR diploid.

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More human gametes or human diploid cells.
This diploid cell then begins meiosis.
Microbial eukaryotes can be either haploid or diploid.
A diploid cell has two sets of chromosomes.
Those cells can be haploid or diploid in eukaryotes.
A diploid individual thus has two haplotypes.
Like their parents the workers are diploid.
The diploid basidium begins the cycle again.
Somatic cells are diploid cells.
Diploid organisms contain two copies of each gene.
By this way a diploid cell is formed.
Diploid males can mate but they are sterile.
The sporophyte is diploid but its spores are haploid.
A diploid organisms that has two copies of itself.
The males are haploid and the females are diploid.
Formation of the diploid nucleus is immediately followed by meiosis.
Gametes are produced by meiosis of a diploid germ line cell.
It is in the diploid sporophyte that vascular tissue develops.
They mate in order to make diploid female offspring.
Human diploid cells originating from.
The somatic cells of humans are diploid.
Among the diploid species from the sect.
There is no alternation between diploid and haploid forms.
The diploid watermelon plant has not been grafted.
Nearly all mammals are diploid organisms.
A stable diploid inbred may be selected.
Number of sets of chromosomes in a diploid cell.
Only diploid cells were used for all experiments.
Most regenerates were either haploid or diploid.
Diploid organisms is homozygous or heterozygous for an allelic form.
No interspecific differences were found between the diploid species.
This is because females are diploid and males are unfertilized haploid.
Life cycle of a fern haploid stages diploid stages.
The diploid cells of the offspring develop from this.
Whether the organism is diploid or haploid.

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