Definitions for haploids

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haploids hap·loid

Spelling: [hap-loid]

IPA: /ˈhæp lɔɪd/

Haploids is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in haploids (adhilops).

Definitions for haploids

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 haploids

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

Examples for haploids

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.

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

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