Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "diploidy" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF DIPLOIDY

diploidy  [ˈdɪplɔɪdɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIPLOIDY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diploidy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DIPLOIDY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of sets of chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell. Normally a gamete carries a full set of chromosomes that includes a single copy of each chromosome, as aneuploidy generally leads to severe genetic disease in the offspring. The haploid number is the number of chromosomes in a gamete. Two gametes form a diploid zygote with twice this number i.e. two copies of autosomal chromosomes. However, the sex chromosomes of diploid cells, which are subject to sex linkage, may be considered as haploid chromosomes, since haploid is also the term used to define a set of chromosomes with only one copy in the cell. For humans, a diploid species, x = n = 23. A typical human somatic cell contains 46 chromosomes: 2 complete haploid sets, which make up 23 homologous chromosome pairs. Because chromosome number is generally reduced only by the specialized process of meiosis, the somatic cells of the body inherit and maintain the chromosome number of the zygote. However, in many situations somatic cells double their copy number by means of endoreduplication as an aspect of cellular differentiation.

Definition of diploidy in the English dictionary

The definition of diploidy in the dictionary is the condition of having pairs of homologous chromosomes so that twice the haploid number is present.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIPLOIDY


allopolyploidy
ˌæləˈpɒlɪˌplɔɪdɪ
allotetraploidy
ˌæləʊˈtɛtrəˌplɔɪdɪ
amphidiploidy
ˌæmfɪˈdɪplɔɪdɪ
amphiploidy
ˈæmfɪˌplɔɪdɪ
aneuploidy
ˈænjʊˌplɔɪdɪ
autopolyploidy
ˌɔːtəʊˈpɒlɪˌplɔɪdɪ
autotetraploidy
ˌɔːtəʊˈtetrəˌplɔɪdɪ
endopolyploidy
ˌɛndəʊˈpɒlɪˌplɔɪdɪ
euploidy
ˈjuːplɔɪdɪ
haploidy
ˈhæplɔɪdɪ
heteroploidy
ˈhetərəˌplɔɪdɪ
hexaploidy
ˈhɛksəˌplɔɪdɪ
hyperploidy
ˈhaɪpəˌplɔɪdɪ
hypodiploidy
ˌhaɪpəʊˈdɪplɔɪdɪ
hypoploidy
ˈhaɪpəˌplɔɪdɪ
octaploidy
ˈɒktəˌplɔɪdɪ
pentaploidy
ˈpentəplɔɪdɪ
polyploidy
ˈpɒlɪˌplɔɪdɪ
tetraploidy
ˈtɛtrəˌplɔɪdɪ
triploidy
ˈtrɪplɔɪdɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIPLOIDY

diplococcal
diplococci
diplococcic
diplococcus
diplodocus
diplogen
diplogenesis
diploic
diploid
diploidic
diploma
diploma mill
diplomacies
diplomacy
diplomat
diplomate
diplomatese
diplomatic
diplomatic bag
diplomatic body

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIPLOIDY

acidy
antisubsidy
bang tidy
bluidy
didy
food subsidy
perfidy
rubbidy
sink tidy
subsidy
tabloidy
tidy
triffidy
untidy

Synonyms and antonyms of diploidy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «diploidy» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF DIPLOIDY

Find out the translation of diploidy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of diploidy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diploidy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

二倍体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diploidia
570 millions of speakers

English

diploidy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

द्विगुणित होने की अवस्था
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضعفانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

диплоидия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diploidia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

diploidy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

diploïdie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diploid
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

diploidy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

2倍性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이배 수 (Diploidy)
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Diploidy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

diploidy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

diploidy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिप्लोएडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

diploidi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

diploidia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

diploidia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

диплоидов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

diploidiei
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διπλοειδίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diploidy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diploidy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diploidy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diploidy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIPLOIDY»

The term «diploidy» is normally little used and occupies the 132.609 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
38
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «diploidy» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of diploidy
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «diploidy».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIPLOIDY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «diploidy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «diploidy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diploidy

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIPLOIDY»

Discover the use of diploidy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diploidy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Evolutionary Genetics of Dikaryosis and Diploidy in the ...
Using Dik-, a mutation that induces diploidy, I compared the immediate phenotypic response of dikaryons and their corresponding, isogenic diploids to 50 different experimental treatments.
Travis Adam Clark, 2007
2
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY
Diploidy allows masking of the expression of deleterious mutations through complementation, i.e., by the expression of the homologous wild-type gene. When diploidy first became predominant, genome size and hence information content, ...
Geoffrey H. Bourne, James Frederic Danielli, 1985
3
Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI: 6th ...
otivation1 for implementing diploidy in genetic algorithms (GAs) came attempt to deal with dynamic, time- varying problem environments, on )ical GAs fare poorly [ 13], [27], [28]. Because diploidy holds on to its f, it will be more able to adapt to ...
Oguz Dikenelli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Alessandro Ricci, 2006
4
Recombination and Meiosis: Models, Means, and Evolution
4.2 Emergence of Diploidy 1893 Weismann presented details in part III of his book “The Phenomena of Heredity Resultingfrom Sexual Reproduction”. In a chapter on “Modification of the Germplasm caused by Amphimixis34”, he drew attention ...
Richard Egel, Dirk-Henner Lankenau, 2008
5
Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications: Proceedings of ...
NONSTATIONARY FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS WITH DOMINANCE AND DIPLOIDY David E. Goldberg and Robert E. Smith Department of Engineering Mechanics The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, ...
John J. Grefenstette, 2013
6
International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
A. Comparison. of. Haploidy. and. Diploidy. without. Dominance. on. Integer. Representations. Session 4-2 Computer Networks II. Ayse S. Yilmaz Department of Computer Science University Of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 ...
Erol Gelenbe, 2002
7
Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology: 5th ...
This paper discusses Shades, a paradigm based on polygenic inheritance, as an alternative to diploidy. Empirical analysis of Shades versus a standard diploid scheme [7] is carried out, on a dynamic problem domain. The results demonstrate  ...
Geuk Lee, Daniel Howard, Dominik Ślęzak, 2011
8
Group Selection
At first glance it would appear that there is an obvious advantage of diploidy in that dominant alleles from one haploid set can prevent the deleterious effects of harmful recessive alleles in the other. However, when equilibrium is reached the  ...
George C. Williams, 1971
9
Darwinian Dynamics: Evolutionary Transitions in Fitness and ...
Sex and diploidy are studied in detail in appendix A and are shown to affect the level of conflict and variation within the emerging organism in profound ways ( also see Michod 1997a). Sex helps diploids maintain higher heri- tability of fitness ...
Richard E. Michod, 2000
10
Issues in Genetic Medicine: 2011 Edition
According to recent research published in the journal Genetics, “Since genome size and the number of duplicate genes observed in genomes increase from haploid to diploid organisms, diploidy might provide more evolutionary probabilities ...
‎2012

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIPLOIDY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term diploidy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Yeast's lifestyle couples mating with meiosis
Biologists remain puzzled about why, but different species predominantly maintain cells containing one (haploidy), two (diploidy), or three or ... «Phys.Org, Jan 14»
2
My deadly genetic disease was just a bug
Diploidy is a good thing: it means that I potentially have a backup of every critical function of my body. So if a piece of my DNA encodes a critical ... «io9, Nov 13»
3
Mosses Make Two Different Plants From the Same Genome, and a …
This two-copy situation -- referred to as diploidy -- was the result of the invention of sex at some hazy date in the distant past, when two-closely ... «Scientific American, May 13»
4
Scien.net Publishes Chromosome and Crossbred Bibliography, and …
It also covers the theory and practice of egg transformation and parthenogenetic diploidy induced through the aid of ionizing radiation. «PR Web, Oct 12»
5
Life Is Designed to Fight Darwinism
... not only evolve due to reduced genetic load compared to mutators; they can invade • Diploidy is found to be closely associated with reduction ... «Discovery Institute, Sep 12»
6
VCF and the Genome Analysis Toolbox
The designers of VCF come from centers and labs studying the human genome, so it's built to handle diploidy but can accommodate haploids ... «Bio-IT World, Mar 12»
7
What is contraception? What is birth control?
The higher rates of aneuploidy and diploidy in the sperm cells of men who have undergone vasectomy reversal may lead to a higher rate of ... «Medical News Today, Sep 09»
8
Chromosomal abnormalities in sperm higher after vasectomy reversal
"The rate of abnormality was about 10 times higher than the aneuploidy and diploidy rate in normal fertile men", said Professor Sukchareon. «EurekAlert, Jun 06»
9
Paternal Age Tied To Miscarriage Risk?
Bosch M, Rajmil O, Martinez-Pasarell O, Egozcue J, Templado C. Linear increase in diploidy in human sperm with age: a four-color FISH study. «Fertility Neighborhood, Jun 05»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Diploidy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/diploidy>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z