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paleoploid

paleoploid adjective: having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past.

Adjective

paleoploid (not comparable)

  1. Having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past
    • Furthermore, DArT has been applied successfully to species with large genomes such as barley [2 ] and with complex or/and polyploid genomes such as the decaploid sugarcane [3 ], hexaploid wheat and oat [4 ,5 ] or the paleoploid apple [6 ].2015 December 17, “Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) Marker Platforms for Diversity Analysis and Linkage Mapping in a Complex Crop, the Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa )”, in...

Origin of paleoploid

From paleo- + -ploid.

Questions about paleoploid

What does paleoploid mean?
Paleoploid means having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past.
What part of speech is paleoploid?
Paleoploid is an adjective.

Words near paleoploid in the dictionary

  1. paleoplain
  2. paleoplains
  3. paleoplankton
  4. paleoplate
  5. paleoplates
  6. paleoploid
  7. paleopole
  8. paleopoles
  9. paleopolyploid
  10. paleopolyploidization
  11. paleopolyploidizations

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