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Somatic cells are all the cells in your body besides for your gametes (sex cells) their diploid because you receive two sets of chromosmoes one from your father and one from you mother. diploid means theres two chromosomes for one gene

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Are somatic cells haploid or diploid?

Somatic cells are diploid, meaning they have two sets of chromosomes.


Which cells are diploid?

somatic cells


In humans what cells are diploid?

All body or somatic cells are diploid. Only sex cells are haploid.


What cell type is diploid sex cell or ovum or gamete or somatic cell?

The diploid cell type is the somatic cell. Gametes, such as ovum, are haploid cells that are produced by the process of meiosis from diploid germ cells.


What are haploid and diploid cells?

Somatic (body) cells are diploid. Sex cells (gametes) are haploid.


What cells in a living thing are diploid?

Somatic cells


What kinds of cells are created in mitosis?

Somatic (body) cells. Diploid (have all 46 chromosomes)


What cell type is a diploid?

Diploid cells have two sets of chromosomes, and are body (somatic) cells.


How do you maintain diploid?

You will always be diploid. All human somatic cells are diploid while sex cells are haploid(or half of a diploid cell). Haploid cells vary based on which chromatids are in the cell. A chromatid is half of a chromosome. sleepingdogstudios.com


Do eggs and sperms diploid chromosomes?

Gametes, such as eggs and sperm, are haploid, not diploid. Diploid would be somatic cells, such as skin cells or brain cells.


What kind of cells would be diploid?

Somatic (body) cells. NOT sex cells.


When are human cells diploid?

Human cells are diploid during the majority of their life cycle, including in somatic cells. This means they have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. The only exception is in reproductive cells (sperm and egg cells), which are haploid.