autotetraploid

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adjective

tetraploid because of the doubling of an ancestral chromosome

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Meanings

adjectiveautotetraploid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologytetraploid because of the doubling of an ancestral chromosome

    In this study, post-germination growth, which occurs entirely by cell elongation, was examined in diploid and autotetraploid hypocotyls of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.)

    2015 August 6, “Stimulation of Cell Elongation by Tetraploidy in Hypocotyls of Dark-Grown Arabidopsis Seedlings”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
nounautotetraploid (plural autotetraploids)

plural autotetraploids

  1. Such a cell or organism

Origin

From auto- + tetraploid.

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APA

autotetraploid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autotetraploid

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“autotetraploid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autotetraploid. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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