haploid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈhæplɔɪd/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English haploid From haplo- + -oid, Ancient Greek roots meaning, together, literally “simplex” or “onefoldlike”, from ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos, “single, simple”, literally “onefold”) and -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).
Meanings
- (broadly, not-comparable) Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).
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(broadly, not-comparable, qualifier:strictly) Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism). ▸ Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes (which is the number that a typical gamete has in many organisms although not all).
Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes.
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:
Coordinates
polyploid · nonaneuploid · aneuploid · euploid · nonaneuploid · tetraploid · polyploid · tetraploid · pentaploid · aneuploid · diploid · heptaploid · nonaneuploid · heptaploid · triploid · hexaploid · pentaploid · hexaploid · euploid · triploid
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Translations (23)
fi haploidi (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · tr haploit (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · hu haploid (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · sh ха̏плоӣдан (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · es haploide (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · cs haploidní (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · pt haploide (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · ja 半数体の (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · sh hȁploīdan (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · ia haploide (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · ru гапло́идный (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · el απλοειδής (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · ca haploide (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · fi haploidinen (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · it aploide (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · ro haploid (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · cmn 單倍體 /单倍体 (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · kmr haploîd (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · fr haploïde (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · sv haploid (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · de haploid (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · pl haploidalny (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes) · is einlitna (having a single set of unpaired chromosomes)