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What does diploidy mean?

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Noun
  1. (genetics) The state of being diploid
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Structural alterations of chromosome 2 in Leishmania major as evidence for diploidy, including spontaneous amplification of the mini-exon array.
The Rickettsia appear to be essential for development of oocytes and may be important in restoring diploidy in the oocytes.
Like the gregarines, however, the life cycle is primarily haploid, with diploidy only occurring before meiosis.
Multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of aneuploidy and diploidy frequencies in 225,846 sperm from 10 normal men.
Although sporulation is a clear indication of diploidy, the absence of sporulation is uninformative since some diploids sporulate at very low frequencies.
A second hypothesis stated that ferns accumulated chromosomes through cycles of polyploidy events, followed by a return to genetic diploidy through gene silencing.

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