tetraploid

Speech parts

1. tetraploid - Noun

2. tetraploid - Adjective

Meaning

tetraploid (not comparable)

(genetics) Having four sets of chromosomes.

A tetraploid cell.

A tetraploid organism.

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Examples

Dihaploids (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

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