DNA Replication, Repair and Cellular Reproduction

In almost all species of animals and most species of plants, the adult organism is diploid, though possessing a few haploid cells purposed towards sexual reproduction. The typical eukaryotic life cycle is for haploid and diploid phases to alternate.

I don't know about you, but I find it oddly defamiliarizing to use the terminology of alternation of generations to describe life cycles in animals.