cell or organism that contains one set of chromosomes - having the number of chromosomes present in the normal germ cell equal to half the number in the normal somatic cell [CUB]
Genetic material consisting of a single chromosome set (half of the diploid number) Egg and sperm cells of animals and egg and pollen cells of plants are haploid
referring to one member of each pair of homologous chromosomes and hence only one copy of each gene
(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes