Definitions for haploid

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haploid hap·loid

Spelling: [hap-loid]

IPA: /ˈhæp lɔɪd/

Haploid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in haploid (adhilop).

Definitions for haploid

noun

1. Biology. an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes, ordinarily half the normal diploid number.

adjective

1. single; simple.
2. Biology. pertaining to a single set of chromosomes.

Origin of haploid

First recorded in 1905-10; hapl- + -oid

Examples for haploid

haploid (n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in diakinesis, metaphase I, and metaphase II of meiosis.

The next stage is their separation to the haploid daughter-nuclei, which have resulted from the reduction process.

Technically the tissue-cells are said to contain the diploid number of chromosomes, the gametes the reduced or haploid number.

Each of these divides again by mitosis (the chromosomes splitting lengthwise), the half or haploid number remaining.