haploid
IPA: hˈæpɫɔɪd
noun
- A cell which is haploid.
- An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.
adjective
- (genetics) Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes.
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Examples of "haploid" in Sentences
- Fungal mycelia are typically haploid.
- Vascular plant spores are always haploid.
- It normally proliferates in a haploid state.
- Differences between haploid and diploid cells.
- Only the germ cells and gametophytes are haploid.
- The males are haploid and the females are diploid.
- Males are haploid, smaller in size, and flightless.
- Computer systems are the equivalent of a haploid genome.
- Males are haploid; they have only one copy of the genome.
- Daniel Smith: So selection would favor haploid reproduction?
- The haploid mycelium may or may not produce haploid spores asexually.
- The haploid gametophyte produces haploid gametes in multicellular gametangia.
- 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.