ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Haplontic

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Haplontic is an adjective meaning (biology) Describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote.

Meaning

(biology) Describing an organism that is haploid for most of its life cycle but that briefly has a diploid zygote.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diplohaplontic, haplobiontic, haplodiplontic, haplodiplobiontic, haplodiploid, autoploid.

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