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

In diploid organisms, one set of chromosomes is inherited from each parent.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 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 haploid generation suffered a proportional reduction, until it finally ceased to have an independent existence and became restricted to the role of producing the sexual products within the body of the diploid generation.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)