Diploid [adjective]
Definition of Diploid:
having two of something
Opposite/Antonyms of Diploid:
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Sentence/Example of Diploid:
There are several kinds of naturally occurring diploid potatoes.
In animals, as in plants, the diploid generation attained the higher development and gradually assumed the dominant position.
The uninitiated sees in the more highly organised plants only a succession of diploid generations.
Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.
They appear with this arrangement in all subsequent nuclear divisions in the diploid generation.
Diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.
Technically the tissue-cells are said to contain the diploid number of chromosomes, the gametes the reduced or haploid number.