How to Use diploid in a Sentence

diploid

adjective

• When tetraploid and diploid plants are crossed, pollen from the diploids is brushed onto the stigmas of the tetraploids.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
• According to this logic, a tetraploid crossed with a diploid watermelon would yield a triploid plant that would be sterile, and this is how seedless watermelons came to be.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
• Here, the phenomenon of a mule was an instructive guide in predicting what would happen when a watermelon with tetraploid chromosomes was crossed with an ordinary diploid variety.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
• The diploid advantage Having two copies of most genes provides important biological advantages.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 July 2026
• Regardless of the mechanism of inheritance, any organism with two sets of chromosomes is described genetically as diploid.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 July 2026