diploid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɪploiːʔ/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From diplo- + -oid. By surface analysis, di- + -ploid.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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.
It has been shown, however, that triploid forms producing diploid gametes in one sex and haploid ones in the other sex can act as a stepping stone towards tetraploidization (triploid bridge; [ 93 – 95 ]).
2015 July 4, Heinz-Ulrich Reyer, Christian Arioli-Jakob, Martina Arioli, “Post-zygotic selection against parental genotypes during larval development maintains all-hybrid populations of the frog Pelophylax esculentus”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
- (not-comparable) Of an organism, having diploid cells.
- (not-comparable) Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces.
Deriveds
pseudodiploid · diploidisation · haplodiploid · hyperdiploid · heterodiploid · homodiploid · eudiploid · allodiploid · amphidiploid · diploidy · diplodiploid · paradiploid · subdiploid · autodiploid · merodiploid · hypodiploid · diploidization · nondiploid
Relateds
haploid · tetraploid · triploid · polyploid
Translations (24)
tl duhambilmanahin (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · sv diploid (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · sh dȉploīdan (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · ca diploide (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · ja 二倍体の (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · io diploida (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · fi diploidinen (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · hu diploid (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · pt diploide (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · nl diploïd (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · fr diploïde (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · tr diploit (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · ro diploid (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · sh ди̏плоӣдан (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · de diploid (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · is tvílitna (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · pl diploidalny (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · kmr xaneya dîploîdî (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · cmn 二倍體 /二倍体 (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · ru дипло́идный (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · it diploide (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · cs diploidní (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · kmr dîploîd (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome) · es diploide (of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome)