hyperpentaploid

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adjective

Having more than the usual pentaploid number of chromosomes

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Meanings

adjectivehyperpentaploid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving more than the usual pentaploid number of chromosomes

    T98G is hyperpentaploid.

    2015 August 8, Yu-xiao Liu et al., “Exposure to 3G mobile phone signals does not affect the biological features of brain tumor cells”, in BMC Public Health, volume 15, →DOI

Origin

From hyper- + pentaploid.

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