An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DIPLOID
diploid
(adjective) of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; “diploid somatic cells”
diploid
(noun) (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
diploid (not comparable)
(cytology) Of a cell, having a pair of each type of chromosome, one of the pair being derived from the ovum and the other from the spermatozoon. Most somatic cells of higher organisms are diploid.
(cytology) Of an organism, having diploid cells.
(crystallography) Of a certain symmetry class with 24 congruent irregular quadrilateral faces.
Noun
diploid (plural diploids)
A cell which is diploid.
An organism with diploid cells.
Source: Wiktionary
Dip"loid, n. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Crystallog.)
Definition: A solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. It is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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