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hypohaploid

hypohaploid adjective: having less than the haploid complement of chromosomes.

Adjective

hypohaploid (comparative more hypohaploid, superlative most hypohaploid)

  1. Having less than the haploid complement of chromosomes.
    • DNA was extracted from different morphological types of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants. The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid. The level...1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants”, in Plant Physiology, volume 90, number 2, →DOI...

Noun

hypohaploid (plural hypohaploids)

  1. A hypohaploid organism.
    • DNA was extracted from different morphological types of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants. The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid. The level...1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants”, in Plant Physiology, volume 90, number 2, →DOI...

Examples of hypohaploid in a sentence

  • DNA was extracted from different morphological types of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants.1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia...
  • The cellular levels of chloroplast DNA (expressed as percent of total DNA) were found to be approximately two- to threefold higher in two albino hypohaploids than in a green hypohaploid.1989, Cannon GC, Van KT, Heinhorst S, Trinh TH, Weissbach A, “An examination of the plastid DNA of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia...

Forms of hypohaploid

Adjective
comparativemore hypohaploid
superlativemost hypohaploid
Noun
pluralhypohaploids

Origin of hypohaploid

From hypo- + haploid.

Questions about hypohaploid

What does hypohaploid mean?
Hypohaploid means having less than the haploid complement of chromosomes.
How do you use hypohaploid in a sentence?
DNA was extracted from different morphological types of hypohaploid Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants.
What part of speech is hypohaploid?
Hypohaploid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hypohaploid in the dictionary

  1. hypohalogeneous
  2. hypohalous
  3. hypohalous acid
  4. hypohalous acids
  5. hypohamiltonian
  6. hypohaploid
  7. hypohaploidies
  8. hypohaploids
  9. hypohaploidy
  10. hypohaptoglobinaemia
  11. hypohaptoglobinemia

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