haploidy

Scientific  

/ hăp′loi′dē /

1. The state or condition of being haploid.

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Example Sentences

As a result, it is impossible to split the assembled genome of into haploid sets: the apparent ploidy level of is scale-dependent, with a tetraploid structure at gene scale versus chromosome-scale haploidy.

From Nature

Several factors can contribute to this difference, notably the X chromosome’s haploidy in males, which reduces on X by 0.75, enhances purifying selection in males, and reduces the recombination rate, thereby increasing the effect of selection via linkage.

From Nature