What is a diploid organism?

Answer 1

Diploid organism is one which contain 1 set of homologous chromosomes.

Diploid organism is defined as organism with 1 set of homologous chromosome, i.e., organism has two copies of same gene in the system.

humans for example has 23 pairs of homologous chromosomes, with 2 copies of each gene on two chromosomes. denoted as 2n.

The figure shows karyogram for human male. where you can see set of 23 pairs of homologous chromosomes.

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Answer 2

Hudson Ansley

A diploid organism has two sets of chromosomes in its cells.

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