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Ploidies
Definitions related to ploidies:
  • (ploidy) The number of chromosome sets per cell.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (ploidy) The number of sets of chromosomes in a cell or an organism. For example, haploid means one set and diploid means two sets.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The degree of replication of the chromosome set in the karyotype.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (chromosome complement) The whole set of chromosomes for the species.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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