Plural of diplosis; instances of doubling or duplication, particularly in biological or cellular contexts.
From Greek diplous (double) with the suffix -osis indicating a process or state, combined with the plural -es. The term emerged in genetics and developmental biology to describe duplication phenomena.
In genetics, diploses can refer to chromosome duplications, and interestingly, some plants benefit from having 'diploses' or even more copies of their genes—polyploid strawberries and wheat are actually stronger plants because they accidentally got extra chromosome sets!
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