Haplodiploid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Haplodiploid is an adjective meaning (biology, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.
Meaning
(biology, of a species) In which members of one sex are haploid and members of the other are diploid; found especially in the Hymenoptera.
More Meanings
- Such an organism
Example Sentences
Curiously, female sweat bees, as are most others bees, wasps, and ants in the order Hymenoptera, are haplodiploid organisms, in which fertilized eggs become female young and unfertilized eggs become males.
Word Forms
- haplodiploids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include diplodiploid, amphiploid, haplodiplobiontic, heteroploid, haplodiplontic, amphihaploid.
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