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UK
/hˈæplɔɪd/
]
[ US /ˈhæpɫɔɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈhæpɫɔɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes
NOUN
- (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
How To Use haploid In A Sentence
- The FB-MOs, mitochondria, and haploid nuclei all segregate into budding spermatids and eventually occupy most of the cytoplasmic space.
- It usually grows as a haploid yeast that reproduces by budding, but under certain environmental conditions it may also undergo a sexual cycle resulting in the production of basidiospores.
- Zebrafish can also be made to develop as haploids by fertilizing the egg with sperm heavily irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- Haploid sperm from P. lucida (different superscripts represent different males) fertilizes the M egg producing an ML female with the same maternal genome as her mother, but different paternal genome.
- Reduced to just the haploid maternal complement of chromosomes, the egg develops into a male.
- Chromosome loss is indicated by the production of aneuploid colonies that are small and may contain haploid sectors that spread in radial arrays.
- The alternation between haploid gametophyte and diploid sporophyte phases, known as alternation of generations, occurs in all multi-cellular plants.
- In the absence of growth inhibition cells are smaller and follow the normal axial budding pattern of haploid cells, in which new cells bud adjacent to the previous site of cytokinesis.
- Human, Homo sapiens, is a diploid (2n = 46) animal with a haploid genome size of about 3.5 pg. Comparing Teleological Predictions with their Non-teleological Counterparts
- Right away, the book stimulated a useful discussion on embryogenesis, haploidy, diploidy, gastrulation, and neurulation. Archive 2006-01-01