A plant that spends most of its life in the diploid (paired-chromosome) stage, with the haploid stage appearing only briefly during reproduction.
From Greek 'diplos' (double) + 'phyte' (plant). A botanical term classifying plants by their reproductive and life-cycle strategy.
Most plants we see—flowers, trees, ferns—are diplophytes, spending their whole visible life with paired chromosomes. But the mosses and liverworts do the opposite!
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