1. tetraploid - Noun
2. tetraploid - Adjective
tetraploid (not comparable)
(genetics) Having four sets of chromosomes.
A tetraploid cell.
A tetraploid organism.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgDihaploids (which are diploid) are important for selective breeding of tetraploid crop plants (notably potatoes), because selection is faster with diploids than with tetraploids. Source: Internet
It is nearly one-third the number of bases of tetraploid cotton (AD), and each chromosome is only present once. Source: Internet
Others are tetraploid (four sets, 28 chromosomes total), hexaploid (six sets, 42 chromosomes total), octoploid (eight sets, 56 chromosomes total), or decaploid (ten sets, 70 chromosomes total). Source: Internet
They agreed on a strategy to sequence the genome of cultivated, tetraploid cotton. Source: Internet