ploidy

3 topics · 3 sources

Healthcare› Medicine

Cancer

(PLOY-dee) The number of sets of chromosomes in a cell or an organism. For example, haploid means one set and diploid means two sets.

Healthcare› Medicine› Cancer

Breast Cancer

(ploy' dee) refers the amount of DNA in cells.

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Food Biotechnology

The number of complete sets of chromosomes per cell, e.g. one set: haploid, two sets: diploid, etc.

Cite this definition

APA
MLA
Chicago