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  1. Having two sets of chromosomes in each cell.
  2. In sexually reproducing species, one set is
  3. derived from each parent, the gametes, or sex
  4. cells, of each parent being haploid (having
  5. only one set of chromosomes) due to meiosis
  6. (reduction cell division).
  7.