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- noun Plural form of
diploid .
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The organisms are assumed to be diploids, meaning that they contain two copies of each chromosome, one received from each parent.
Population Genetics Okasha, Samir 2006
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The FDA decided this time to ignore this troublesome finding, since it was from the egg-laying diploids.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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The FDA decided this time to ignore this troublesome finding, since it was from the egg-laying diploids.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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The FDA decided this time to ignore this troublesome finding, since it was from the egg-laying diploids.
Jeffrey Smith: GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Minds?! Jeffrey Smith 2010
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This deserves at least one full chapter, maybe more, but textbooks usually gloss over it, assuming that students who understand how DNA makes RNA makes proteins and what proteins do will automatically grasp the implications for phenotypes, especially in diploids.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rosie Redfield 2009
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This deserves at least one full chapter, maybe more, but textbooks usually gloss over it, assuming that students who understand how DNA makes RNA makes proteins and what proteins do will automatically grasp the implications for phenotypes, especially in diploids.
Preparing for a meeting with our usual textbook rep Rosie Redfield 2009
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Reading up about hybridization on the site of one of our favorite local daylily farms, Champions, we learned of diploids, tetraploids and ploidys in general.
Capturing A Blooming Daylily Hill-Without A Net « Fairegarden 2009
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(By the way, I think it's only 4*Ne*s for haploid organisms, and 2*Ne*s for diploids – I used simply Ne*s as a conservative simplification.)
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(By the way, I think it's only 4*Ne*s for haploid organisms, and 2*Ne*s for diploids – I used simply Ne*s as a conservative simplification.)
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We know quite a bit about how fertilization works in sexually reproducing diploids like ourselves.
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