diploid

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The team traced the source of resistance to a wild diploid banana known as Calcutta 4.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

The cranberry is a diploid, which means that each cell contains one set of chromosomes from the maternal parent and one set from the paternal parent.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 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

In the case of sexual fertilisation, the simple chromosome sets from the egg and sperm cells come together to create a double -- diploid -- chromosome set.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)