Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

haplont

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hap-lont
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any haplontic organism; any organism whose zygotes undergo zygotic meiosis (meiosis immediately after the fusion of cell nuclei).

Example Sentences

"1933, John Milton Webber, Cytological Features of Nicotiana Glucinosa Haplonts, M. C. Merrill (editorial supervisor), Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 47, U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 864, The behavior of haplont Nicotiana glutinosa is in harmony with the foregoing facts. […] The occurrence of diploid cells in the callus of decapitated haplonts may be attributed to causes similar to those resulting in diploid cells in proximal callus."
"It is thus an amphimictic haplont, but clonal selling gives progeny identical among themselves and with their parents."
"The first transition is a vegetative cell to a gamete, followed by gamete fusion and the production of a zygote. This involves syngamy and in haplont life cycles the 1n gametes fuse to form a 2n motile or non-motile zygote. There can be one stage or two-stage meiosis with resultant haplonts to begin the cycle again."

Etymology

From haplo- + -ont, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “single, simple”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: ἁπλόος

Inflected Forms

haplonts (plural)

Phrases

zygotic meiosis

Frequently Paired Words

zygotic meiosis diplont haplodiplontic

Questions

What does haplont mean?: Any haplontic organism; any organism whose zygotes undergo zygotic meiosis (meiosis immediately after the fusion of cell nuclei).
Where does haplont come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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