haploid

IPA: hˈæpɫɔɪd

Examples of "haploid" in Sentences

Males are haploid; they have only one copy of the genome.
Daniel Smith: So selection would favor haploid reproduction?
But because males are haploid (and assuming monandry), her sisters share 75% of her genes.
In environments where fast reproduction is important, haploid organisms can have an advantage.
The gametes they produce are haploid, meaning that they contain only one of each chromosome pair.
The significance of the “diploid” genome is that Levy and colleagues obtained sequence from both chromosomes in each pair, rather than settling for a composite “haploid” genome.
The inferred chromosome numbers of these extinct species suggest that seven to nine is the primitive haploid chromosome number of angiosperms and that most angiosperms approximately 70 percent have polyploidy in their history.
The nucleus of sperm and eggs are haploid, meaning they only have half their normal compliment of genetic material, while somatic cell nuclei are diploid (it occurs to Sci that she's gonna have to explain meiosis some day ...).
As for “life starts at conception” — two haploid gametes, themselves “alive”, certainly a product of “life”, come together to form a diploid cell which eventually becomes whatever its DNA demands: a mouse, an elephant, a human, whatever.