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Definition of Diploid

1. Adjective. Of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number. "Diploid somatic cells"

2. Noun. (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number.

Definition of Diploid

1. n. A solid bounded by twenty- four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

Definition of Diploid

1. Adjective. (cytology) 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. ¹

2. Noun. A cell which is diploid. ¹

3. Noun. An organism with diploid cells. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diploid

1. a cell having the basic chromosome number doubled [n -S]

Medical Definition of Diploid

1. A cell with a full set of genetic material, consisting of chromosomes in homologous pairs and thus having two copies of each autosomal genetic locus. A diploid cell has one chromosome from each parental set. most animal cells have a diploid set of chromosomes. The diploid human genome has 46 chromosomes. The gametes (eggs and sperm) contain a single set of chromosomes (haploid). Compare: haploid. (10 Nov 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diploid

diplococcus diplocoria diplodocus diplodocuses diploe diploes diploetic diplogen diplogenesis diplogenic

diplogens diplohaplontic diploic diploic canals diploic vein diploid nucleus diploidic diploidies diploidization diploids

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Literary usage of Diploid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the spore-bearing plant of the Phanerogams, is characterized by its diploid nuclei; ... at present it will suffice to say that such things as a diploid ..."

2. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Alja Robinson Crook, Illinois State Museum (1920)
"Model of a diploid Fig. 69) are developed, beginning with the plane (210). ... Occasionally a form shown in Figure 70, called a diploid, is found. ..."

3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The condition of the variety is as though reduction had been omitted from the cycle: as a consequence the prothallus being itself diploid, ..."

4. The Characters of Crystals: An Introduction to Physical Crystallography by Alfred Joseph Moses (1899)
"CLASS OF THE diploid. The forms have three cubic planes of symmetry, the intersection of these are three axes of binary symmetry and there are four diagonal ..."

5. A Textbook of General Embryology by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"In fertilization the diploid group is formed, but is then retained through only two generations, after which the haploid condition is restored. ..."

6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"It is diploid and contrasts with the HAPLOID nuclei of the gametes. The nuclei resulting from the further division of the nucleus of the zygote are as a ..."

7. Hints for Crystal Drawing by Margaret Reeks (1908)
"... OBLITERATED BY OCTAHEDRON—diploid, COMPLEMENTARY FORM—COMBINATION. PLATES IX. TO XI. THE construction of the + ..."

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