decaploid

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adjective

having ten complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell

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Meanings

adjectivedecaploid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyhaving ten complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell

    Furthermore, DArT has been applied successfully to species with large genomes such as barley [2 ] and with complex or/and polyploid genomes such as the decaploid sugarcane [3 ], hexaploid wheat and oat [4 ,5 ] or the paleoploid apple [6 ].

    2015 December 17, “Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) Marker Platforms for Diversity Analysis and Linkage Mapping in a Complex Crop, the Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From deca- + -ploid.

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