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tetraploid en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having 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:

Deriveds

tetraploidy · hypotetraploid · pseudotetraploid · mesotetraploid · subtetraploid · neotetraploid · hypertetraploid · paleotetraploid · allotetraploid · tetraploidization

Translations (2)

de tetraploid (having four sets of chromosomes) · ro tetraploid (having four sets of chromosomes)

tetraploid en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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:

Forms

Deriveds

heterotetraploid · autotetraploid

Relateds

polyploid · diploid