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haploid

 
(hăp'loid') pronunciation
adj.
  1. Having the same number of sets of chromosomes as a germ cell or half as many as a somatic cell.
  2. Having a single set of chromosomes.
n.
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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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.

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