diploid
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To study the consequences of these abnormalities, Cimini's team manipulated diploid cancer cells so they would duplicate their chromosomes without completing cell division.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
However, sometimes the number of chromosome sets doubles from one generation to the next: one diploid organism suddenly becomes a tetraploid -- i.e. it has four sets of chromosomes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The team discovered that Nepenthes has a decaploid genome in its diploid state, a complex structure almost unprecedented in flowering plants that reflects possession of five whole-genome multiples, or "subgenomes."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
And diploid crops tend to have fewer genes associated with a single trait, which makes breeding them to emphasize that trait much simpler.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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