haploid
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hap·loid
(hăp'loid') 
adj.
An organism having haploid cells.
adj.
- Having the same number of sets of chromosomes as a germ cell or half as many as a somatic cell.
- Having a single set of chromosomes.
An organism having haploid cells.
[From Greek haplous, single + -OID.]
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describing a cell, an organism or a nucleus of a cell having a single genome or a single set of homologous chromosomes; i.e. containing half the diploid number; having a ploidy of one.
—haploidy n.
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| haplotype, hapt+, hapten |
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haploid
Having half the number of chromosomes characteristically found in the somatic (diploid) cells of an organism; typical of the gametes of a species whose union restores the diploid number.
- h. karyotype — see haplotype.
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- Genetics, Heredity, and Evolution - haploid: (adj) possessing only one set of chromosomes, in gametes
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