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.
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.
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