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“haplodiploidy”
A genetic system which is found in some animals in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid; or an organism or cell that has two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number.
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haplodiploidy
The mode of sex determination in which males are derived from haploid (single set of unpaired chromosomes) eggs and females from diploid (two sets of chromosomes) eggs.
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