diploid
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To pinpoint the protective trait, researchers crossed Calcutta 4 with susceptible bananas from another diploid subspecies.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
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
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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