diploid

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The team traced the source of resistance to a wild diploid banana known as Calcutta 4.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

Of the bees sampled, 15% showed evidence of inbreeding, through the presence of what are called diploid males.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

The cranberry is a diploid, which means that each cell contains one set of chromosomes from the maternal parent and one set from the paternal parent.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023

And diploid crops tend to have fewer genes associated with a single trait, which makes breeding them to emphasize that trait much simpler.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023

The resulting individual is normal in every respect except that instead of the usual diploid number it has only the single or haploid number of chromosomes.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.