diploid
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Because tetraploid cells contain twice the usual number of chromosome sets, the researchers expected them to be approximately twice as large as diploid 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
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
Every sexual differentiation in organisms, which occurred in the course of phylogenetic development, was followed by fertilisation and therefore by the creation of a diploid or double-chromosome product.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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