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tetrapolyploid

tetrapolyploid is the alternative form of tetraploid.

Meaning of tetraploid

Adjective

tetraploid (not comparable)

  1. Having four sets of chromosomes.
    • In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.1998, C. Horlow, C. Raquin, “A Critical Analysis of Existing Haploidization Techniques”, in Y[ves] Chupeau, M[ichel] Caboche, Y[ves] Henry, editors, Androgenesis and Haploid Plants: […] In Memory of...

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Origin of tetrapolyploid

From tetra- + polyploid.

Questions about tetrapolyploid

What is tetrapolyploid the alternative form of?
Tetrapolyploid is the alternative form of tetraploid.

Words near tetrapolyploid in the dictionary

  1. tetrapolar
  2. tetrapolarity
  3. tetrapoleis
  4. tetrapolis
  5. tetrapolitan
  6. tetrapolyploid
  7. tetraporate
  8. tetraporphyrin
  9. tetrapotassium
  10. tetrapous
  11. tetrapropylammonium

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