Diploids is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 155 anagrams from letters in diploids (ddiilops).
First recorded in 1905-10; dipl(o)- + -oid
In animals, as in plants, the diploid generation attained the higher development and gradually assumed the dominant position.
They appear with this arrangement in all subsequent nuclear divisions in the diploid generation.
Technically the tissue-cells are said to contain the diploid number of chromosomes, the gametes the reduced or haploid number.
Similarly all the higher animals appear to us as independent organisms with diploid nuclei only.
The uninitiated sees in the more highly organised plants only a succession of diploid generations.
diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.
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