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diploidy

Scientific  
/ dĭp′loi′dē /

  1. The state or condition of being diploid.

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This two-copy situation — referred to as diploidy — was the result of the invention of sex at some hazy date in the distant past, when two-closely related cells fused, probably by accident.

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