On this page you'll find 6 example sentences with Diploids. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Diploids meaning
plural of diploid
Using Diploids
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of diploid
- In the example corpus, diploids often appears in combinations such as: the diploids.
Context around Diploids
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diploids
- In this selection, "diploids" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, normal, meaning, heterozygous and avon stand out and add context to how "diploids" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include collection the diploids avon 1962 and faster with diploids than with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diploids" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diploids
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tetraploids can be reconstituted from the diploids, for example by somatic fusion. (12 words)
Termites work more similarly to humans (they’re diploids), meaning their societies tend to be more 50/50. (18 words)
In the latter case, these are known as allopolyploids (or amphidiploids, which are allopolyploids that behave as if they were normal diploids). (22 words)
In these species, haploids are male and diploids heterozygous at the sex locus are female, but occasionally a diploid will be homozygous at the sex locus and develop as a male, instead. (32 words)
The story was reprinted a decade later in Groff Conklin 's anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels (Dell, 1960), followed by MacLean's collection, The Diploids (Avon, 1962). (29 words)
Dihaploids (which are diploid) are important for selective breeding of tetraploid crop plants (notably potatoes), because selection is faster with diploids than with tetraploids. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
Termites work more similarly to humans (they’re diploids), meaning their societies tend to be more 50/50.
Dihaploids (which are diploid) are important for selective breeding of tetraploid crop plants (notably potatoes), because selection is faster with diploids than with tetraploids.
In the latter case, these are known as allopolyploids (or amphidiploids, which are allopolyploids that behave as if they were normal diploids).
In these species, haploids are male and diploids heterozygous at the sex locus are female, but occasionally a diploid will be homozygous at the sex locus and develop as a male, instead.
Tetraploids can be reconstituted from the diploids, for example by somatic fusion.
The story was reprinted a decade later in Groff Conklin 's anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels (Dell, 1960), followed by MacLean's collection, The Diploids (Avon, 1962).
Common combinations with diploids
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: