paleoploid

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adjective

Having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past

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Meanings

adjectivepaleoploid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past

    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 paleo- + -ploid.

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