How do you use Diploid in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like polyploid or haploid, plus the exact meaning.
Diploid meaning
- 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.
- Of an organism, having diploid cells.
- Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces.
Using Diploid
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | Of an organism, having diploid cells. | Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces.
- Useful related words include: polyploid, haploid, organism, being.
- In the example corpus, diploid often appears in combinations such as: are diploid, the diploid, form diploid.
Context around Diploid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diploid
- In this selection, "diploid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, haploid, extended, new, zygote, organisms and life stand out and add context to how "diploid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new diploid result in and advantage of diploid e g. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diploid" sits close to words such as accesses, acrimonious and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diploid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Diploid individuals are generally female but may be sterile males. (10 words)
Cells and organisms with pairs of homologous chromosomes are called diploid. (11 words)
The advantage of diploid, e.g. heterosis, only takes place in diploid life stage. (14 words)
During gametogenesis —the production of new gametes by an adult—the normal complement of 46 chromosomes needs to be halved to 23 to ensure that the resulting haploid gamete can join with another gamete to produce a diploid organism. (39 words)
Because the number of chromosomes is halved during meiosis, gametes can fuse (i.e. fertilization ) to form a diploid zygote that contains two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent. (31 words)
Crossing over and fertilization (the recombining of single sets of chromosomes to make a new diploid) result in the new organism containing a different set of genetic traits from either parent. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
The advantage of diploid, e.g. heterosis, only takes place in diploid life stage.
Two gametes form a diploid zygote with twice this number (2n, the zygotic or diploid number) i.e. two copies of autosomal chromosomes.
All other chromosomes in these organisms are diploid, but organisms may inherit one or two X chromosomes.
All plants and many fungi and algae switch between a haploid and a diploid state, with one of the stages emphasized over the other.
Although they do not use the haploid/diploid method of sexual reproduction, bacteria have many methods of acquiring new genetic information.
Animals hatnote Hoverflies mating Most sexually reproducing animals spend their lives as diploid organisms, with the haploid stage reduced to single cell gametes.
Apomixis mainly occurs in two forms: In gametophytic apomixis, the embryo arises from an unfertilized egg within a diploid embryo sac that was formed without completing meiosis.
A rare few number of taxa have extended diploid lifecycles, but can be common species.
Because the number of chromosomes is halved during meiosis, gametes can fuse (i.e. fertilization ) to form a diploid zygote that contains two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent.
Because the ploidy is reduced from diploid to haploid, meiosis I is referred to as a reductional division.
Cells and organisms with pairs of homologous chromosomes are called diploid.
Community interactions Coccolithophorids are predominantly found as single, free-floating haploid or diploid cells.
Crossing over and fertilization (the recombining of single sets of chromosomes to make a new diploid) result in the new organism containing a different set of genetic traits from either parent.
Cycling meiosis and fertilization events produces a series of transitions back and forth between alternating haploid and diploid states.
Dihaploids (which are diploid) are important for selective breeding of tetraploid crop plants (notably potatoes), because selection is faster with diploids than with tetraploids.
Diploid individuals are generally female but may be sterile males.
Diploid males are known to be produced by inbreeding in many ant, bee, and wasp species.
Diploid organisms form haploids by dividing, without replicating their DNA, to create daughter cells that randomly inherit one of each pair of chromosomes.
During gametogenesis —the production of new gametes by an adult—the normal complement of 46 chromosomes needs to be halved to 23 to ensure that the resulting haploid gamete can join with another gamete to produce a diploid organism.
During sexual reproduction there is a diploid phase, which commonly is very short, and meiosis restores the haploid state.
Common combinations with diploid
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- are diploid 7×
- the diploid 7×
- form diploid 6×
- diploid cells 6×
- in diploid 5×
- diploid zygote 5×
- diploid organisms 5×
- diploid and 5×
- of diploid 4×
- diploid species 4×