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diploidy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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diploidy
Haplo-diploidy, where one sex is diploid, and the other haploid.
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In other cases, collectively called automictic parthenogenesis, the ploidy is restored to diploidy by various means.
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Diploidy might be restored by the doubling of the chromosomes without cell division before meiosis begins or after meiosis is completed.
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- The condition of being diploid
- (diploid) of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; "diploid somatic cells"
- Ploidy refers to the number of sets of chromosomes in a biological cell.
- (diploid) A cell which is diploid; An organism with diploid cells; 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
- (diploid) Refers to the full complement of chromosomes in a somatic cell, distinct for each species (forty-six in human beings).
- (diploid) having two of the basic sets of chromosomes in the nucleus. cf. haploid, polyploid.
- (Diploid) in human cells, having two sets of chromosomes, one of paternal origin, the other maternal.
- (diploid) contain two alleles for every gene at every locus, one inherited from their mother and one inherited from their father
- (diploid) a cell that contains two of each type of chromosome, such as a human somatic cell.
