半はん数すう性せい

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

haploidy

Technical term in genetics referring to the state of having a single set of unpaired chromosomes. Used in scientific contexts.

• 半はん数すう性せいの細さい胞ぼうは、通つう常じょうの体たい細さい胞ぼうの半はん分ぶんの染せん色しょく体たい数すうを持もつ。

  Haploid cells have half the number of chromosomes of normal somatic cells.

• 植しょく物ぶつの半はん数すう性せい世せ代だいは配はい偶ぐう体たいと呼よばれる。

  The haploid generation in plants is called the gametophyte.