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Diploid   Listen
noun
diploid  n.  
1.
(Crystallog.) A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
2.
(Biol.) A cell or organism having a number of chromosomes corresponding to two copies of each chromosome; a diploid cell or organism. "A: I'm not interested in diploids. B: Oh, how I wish your parents had felt the same way!"





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"Diploid" Quotes from Famous Books



... the protracted and painstaking investigation of the German author it appears that in Didymium at least, and probably Badhamia synapsis immediately precedes spore-formation as in Ceratiomyxa; that the amoeboid issue of the spores are haploid; the nuclei of the plasmodium, diploid; that the ordinary vegetative plasmodium is accordingly sporophytic. That is, the sporophytic phase is dominant, ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride


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