diploid

Wikipedia

See also diploïd

English

Adjective

diploid (not comparable)

1. (cytology) Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid.

Derived terms

• diploidy

Translations

of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome

Czech: diploidní (cs) Dutch: diploïd (nl) French: diploïde (fr) m. and f. German: diploid (de) Icelandic: tvílitna (is) Ido: diploida (io) Italian: diploide (it) m. and f.

Japanese: 二倍体の (ja) (にばいたいの, nibaitai no) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ди̏плоӣдан (sh) Roman: dȉploīdan (sh) Spanish: diploide (es) Swedish: diploid (sv) Turkish: diploid (tr)

See also

• haploid
• polyploid
• tetraploid
• triploid

Noun

diploid (plural diploids)

1. A cell which is diploid.
2. An organism with diploid cells.