Meanings
plural polyploidies
- uncountablebiologyThe condition of being polyploid or the process of becoming polyploid.
As they mature, the DNA is replicated several times but the cell does not divide, a condition known as polyploidy which allows cells to increase in size.
2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 901 more example
This propensity to polyploidy helps account for the diversity (and thus success) of flowering plants, in particular. It is also known that flowering plants sailed majestically through the life-destroying asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, which did for the dinosaurs and many other animals.
2014 June 28, “Double or quits”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8893
Origin
- GermanPolyploidie
- Englishpolyploidy
From polyploid + -y, after German Polyploidie.
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Finnish polyploidia
- polyploidiastate or condition of being a polyploid
German Polyploidie
- Polyploidiestate or condition of being a polyploid
Hungarian poliploidia, kromoszómaszerelvény-sokszorozódás
- poliploidiastate or condition of being a polyploid
- kromoszómaszerelvény-sokszorozódásstate or condition of being a polyploid
- kromoszómaszám sokszorozódásstate or condition of being a polyploid
Italian poliploidia
- poliploidiastate or condition of being a polyploid
Romanian poliploidie
- poliploidiestate or condition of being a polyploid
Spanish poliploidía
- poliploidíastate or condition of being a polyploid
Turkish poliploidi
- poliploidistate or condition of being a polyploid
Cite this entry
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