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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The number of sets of chromosomes in a cell or an organism. For example, haploid means one set and diploid means two sets. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A haploid cell bears one set of chromosomes, a diploid cell bears two sets, and a polyploid cell bears many sets.
The ploidy of cells can vary within an organism. In humans, most cells are diploid (containing one set of chromosomes from each parent), though sex cells (sperm and oocytes) are haploid.
Aneuploidy is when a cell contains an abnormal or non-integer ploidy number. This may lead to problems in cell development. Most forms of aneuploidy in humans are lethal, but trisomy (three copies) of the sex chromosome (the cause of Klinefelter's syndrome and others) and of chromosome 21 (the cause of Down syndrome) are relatively common.
Many forms of cancer have incorrect ploidy numbers, due to the accumulation of mutations which increase chromosome missegregation.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ploidy."
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | S-phase fraction does correlate with prognosis, but ploidy status alone is not of clear prognostic value. (references) | |
Ploidy status and S phase fraction have not consistently correlated with overall recurrence and survival. (references) | ||
DNA flow cytometry has become widely available for the determination of S-phase fraction as well as ploidy status. (references) | ||
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| "PLOIDY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "PLOIDY" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ploidy | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PLOIDY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | ploidi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ploïdie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ploidia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ploïdie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Ploidiegrad, Ploidie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλοειδία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ploidia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oidyplay ploidia. (various references) ploidía. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PLOIDY": allopolyploidy, allotetraploidy, amphidiploidy, amphiploidy, aneuploidy, autopolyploidy, autotetraploidy, diploidy, endopolyploidy, euploidy, haploidy, heteroploidy, hexaploidy, hyperploidy, hypodiploidy, pentaploidy, polyploidy, tetraploidy, triploidy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-l-o-p-y" | |
-1 letter: doily, pyoid. | |
-2 letters: diol, dopy, idly, idol, idyl, lido, odyl, oily, oldy, pily, plod, ploy, poly. | |
-3 letters: dip, dol, lid, lip, lop, oil, old, ply, pod, poi, pol, yid, yip, yod. | |
-4 letters: do, id, li, lo, od, op, oy, pi, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-l-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: podgily. | |
+2 letters: diploidy, droopily, euploidy, haploidy, lymphoid, olympiad, phylloid, polybrid, polypide, polypoid, torpidly. | |
+3 letters: deploying, diplomacy, hypnoidal, hypoploid, lyophiled, oedipally, olympiads, phyllodia, phylloids, pointedly, polyamide, polybrids, polypides, polyploid, pyridoxal, pyrolized, sympodial, triploidy. | |
+4 letters: adoptively, aneuploidy, cyclopedia, cyclopedic, depilatory, droopingly, epicycloid, glycolipid, hexaploidy, hyperploid, hypoploids, lopsidedly, lycopodium, phyllodium, ploddingly, podophylli, polyamides, polydipsia, polydipsic, polyploids, polyploidy, polypodies, ponytailed, preholiday, prodigally, pyridoxals, stylopodia. | |
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