haploid

(hăp'loid')
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.

• h. karyotype — see haplotype.

For a list of words related to haploid, see:

• Genetics, Heredity, and Evolution - haploid: (adj) possessing only one set of chromosomes, in gametes

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