Differentiate between haploid and diploid in an easy way to understand..plzz

Question

how will the chromosome look if it is unpaired?? does it mean that it has got only one arm?? plz explain me this fundamental...plz plz

Answer 1

haploid:

Having the same number of sets of chromosomes as a germ cell or half as many as a somatic cell.

Having a single set of chromosomes.

diploid:

Double or twofold.

Genetics. Having a pair of each type of chromosome, so that the basic chromosome number is doubled: diploid somatic cells.

Answer 2

Haploid cells carry only one set of chromosomes. Diploid cells carry 2 sets of chromosomes.

Differences between haploid and diploid cells

Haploid cells are one of two mating types (a or α), respond to the mating pheromone produced by haploid cells of the opposite mating type, and can mate with cells of the opposite mating type. Haploid cells cannot undergo meiosis. Diploid cells do not produce or respond to either mating pheromone and do not mate, but can undergo meiosis to produce four haploid cells.

Like the differences between haploid a and α cells, different patterns of gene repression and activation are responsible for the phenotypic differences between haploid and diploid cells. In addition to the specific a and α transcriptional patterns, haploid cells of both mating types share a haploid transcriptional pattern which activates haploid-specific genes (such as HO) and represses diploid-specific genes (such as IME1). Similarly, diploid cells activate diploid-specific genes and repress haploid-specific genes.

Answer 3

Haploid is the cell which has only one set of chromosomes (n). Diploid has two sets of chromosomes (2n).  Haploid(n) is formed after the meiosis of the gamete mother cells(2n). From one gamete mother cell four gametes are formed which are haploid. Dipoid cells (2n) are formed by the fusion of male(n) and female(n) gametes. The first diploid cell formed after fertilization is called as zygote. Subsequent mitotic divisions leads to the formation of embryo.

The unpaired chromosome looks as if a central centromere and the two arms on either side of the centromere.  

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A single chromatid - which is a half of a chromosome - looks like an "I"; It is one strip of spiraling dna.  When a chromatid is paired with another identical chromatid, it looks like an "X" because the two "I"s are connected at the middle.  This "X" is called a chromosome.  

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Answer 6

HAPLOID-the cell that contains half the number of chromosomes of the original parent

DIPLOID-the cell that contains chromosomes from both parents

In humanbeings , when two haploid cells(a sperm and an egg, each containing 23 chromosomes) unite in fertilisation, they form diploid cell, a cell containing 46 chromosomes( half from mother and half from father)