Diploid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIPLOID in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an animall with two homologous sets of chromosomes
• a diploid cell, organism, or species.
• A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
• (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
• diploid cell or organism
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a cell or nucleus) containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.
• (of an organism or part) composed of diploid cells.
• denoting a cell or organism with pairs of homologous chromosomes
• of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cell having the basic chromosome number doubled

Words related to DIPLOID

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Words that contain DIPLOID

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How to use DIPLOID in a sentence

• In animals, as in plants, the diploid generation attained the higher development and gradually assumed the dominant position.
• The uninitiated sees in the more highly organised plants only a succession of diploid generations.
• Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.
• They appear with this arrangement in all subsequent nuclear divisions in the diploid generation.

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