Relating to or characteristic of haplonts, organisms whose dominant life stage is haploid.
From 'haplont' + '-ic' (adjectival suffix). Developed alongside the noun form in modern biological classification systems.
When biologists say a species is 'haplontic,' they're describing its whole life strategy—most of the time it's operating with unpaired chromosomes, which is actually how many ancient organisms worked.
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