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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

polyteny en · NOUN

Etymology

From polytene + -y.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:molecular biology, uncountable) The presence within a cell of polytene chromosomes (large chromosomes with multiple synapsed chromatids)

Relateds

polyploidy · endomitosis · polytenic · polytene