diploid
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To investigate, Sweet and Bloomfield compared tumors that developed from ordinary diploid cancer cells with those formed from tetraploid cancer cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
After accounting for the unusual evolutionary history of the aculeate Hymenoptera, the researchers found that haplodiploid insects outside that group developed eusociality at rates similar to those seen in diploid insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
However, sometimes the number of chromosome sets doubles from one generation to the next: one diploid organism suddenly becomes a tetraploid -- i.e. it has four sets of chromosomes.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 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
On the full development of the diploid embryo of the next generation, the diploid ovule of the preceding diploid generation is separated from the latter as a ripe seed.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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