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hyperhaploidies

hyperhaploidies is the plural of hyperhaploidy.

Meaning of hyperhaploidy

Noun

hyperhaploidy (usually uncountable, plural hyperhaploidies)

  1. (usually) The state of having more than the haploid complement of chromosomes.
    • The frequency of sperm-derived hyperhaploidy did not differ significantly between the in vivo (3.4%) and in vitro (5.9%) populations, but did between unaged (2.5%) and aged (6.8%) sperm (chi c2 = 5.74, P less than 0.01). All hyperhaploid zygotes had a complement of n + 1 chromosomes, except the...1992, MC Sapp, PA Martin-DeLeon, “Sperm age, sex ratio, and hyperhaploidy frequency in mice”, in Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, volume 61, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 61–66

Questions about hyperhaploidies

What is hyperhaploidies the plural of?
Hyperhaploidies is the plural of hyperhaploidy.

Words near hyperhaploidies in the dictionary

  1. hyperhalophile
  2. hyperhalophiles
  3. hyperhalophilic
  4. hyperhamiltonian
  5. hyperhaploid
  6. hyperhaploidies
  7. hyperhaploids
  8. hyperhaploidy
  9. hyperheavy
  10. hyperhedonia
  11. hyperhedonic

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