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parahaploid

parahaploid adjective: describing a male diploid organism whose parental genes are inactivated by heterochromatization.

Adjective

parahaploid (not comparable)

  1. Describing a male diploid organism whose parental genes are inactivated by heterochromatization

Origin of parahaploid

From para- + haploid.

Questions about parahaploid

What does parahaploid mean?
Parahaploid means describing a male diploid organism whose parental genes are inactivated by heterochromatization.
What part of speech is parahaploid?
Parahaploid is an adjective.

Words near parahaploid in the dictionary

  1. parahallucination
  2. parahallucinations
  3. parahaoma
  4. parahaplogroup
  5. parahaplogroups
  6. parahaploid
  7. parahawk
  8. parahawking
  9. parahawks
  10. parahelion
  11. paraheliotropic

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