tetraploid

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adjective

Having four sets of chromosomes.

OriginAncient Greek τετραπλός →
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Meanings

adjectivetetraploid (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving four sets of chromosomes.

    In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.

    1998, C. Horlow, C. Raquin, “A Critical Analysis of Existing Haploidization Techniques”, in Y[ves] Chupeau, M[ichel] Caboche, Y[ves] Henry, editors, Androgenesis and Haploid Plants: […] In Memory of Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
nountetraploid (plural tetraploids)

plural tetraploids

  1. A tetraploid cell.
  2. A tetraploid organism.

    The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .

    1995, Romuald Kosina, Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
disomatic

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekείδος
  2. Ancient Greekτετραπλός
  3. Englishtetraploid

From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.

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Translations

German tetraploid
  • tetraploidhaving four sets of chromosomes
Romanian tetraploid
  • tetraploidhaving four sets of chromosomes
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