Diploid

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by The Alchemist (4.2 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Jul 02 2000 at 15:54:33

Also the prefix for organisms that are heterozygotes. It means they have two copies of each chromosome which are independantly segragated during mitosis. This means more genetic material, which is both a blessing and a burden. Sex is possible with diploidy, since each parent contributes one copy (sperm and eggs are haploid cells). Of course, bacteria don't have this problem since they do something different.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:05:34

Dip"loid (?), n. [Gr. twofold + -oid.] Crystallog.

A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.

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polyploid	haplodiploid	heterozygote	homologous chromosomes
haploid	sporophyte	Meiosis	tetraploid
Alternation of generations	hyperploidy	Geographic Parthenogenesis	hemizygous
banana	hemizygous gene	sister chromatid	Schizosaccharomyces pombe
arrhenotoky	Oral sex	heterogametic	How Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man have sex
kin altruism	Epigenetic	Technology that gets lost between now and Star Trek	Y chromosome

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