diploid
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Most healthy cells in the human body are diploid, meaning they contain two complete sets of chromosomes, with one inherited from each parent.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Because tetraploid cells contain twice the usual number of chromosome sets, the researchers expected them to be approximately twice as large as diploid cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
What's more, in established tetraploid populations of sand rock-cress, the genes in question are often slightly different to the versions found in diploid individuals.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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
Every sexual differentiation in organisms, which occurred in the course of phylogenetic development, was followed by fertilisation and therefore by the creation of a diploid or double-chromosome product.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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