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

Of the bees sampled, 15% showed evidence of inbreeding, through the presence of what are called diploid males.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

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

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

The recently discovered fact that in diploid nuclei the chromosomes are arranged in pairs affords additional evidence in favour of the unequal value of the chromosomes.

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