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tetrasomy

tetrasomy noun: the condition of being tetrasomic.

Noun

tetrasomy (countable and uncountable, plural tetrasomies)

  1. The condition of being tetrasomic
    • The representative of TcIII DTU, 231, has tetrasomy of chromosome 10; chromosomes 11 and 18 range from trisomic to tetrasomic; trisomy of chromosomes 6 and 19; and chromosomes 1, 13, 16, 21, 24 and 31 have a ploidy ranging from disomic to trisomic (Fig. 3).2015 July 4, João Luís Reis-Cunha et al., “Chromosomal copy number variation reveals differential levels of genomic plasticity in distinct Trypanosoma cruzi strains”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI

Forms of tetrasomy

pluraltetrasomies

Questions about tetrasomy

What does tetrasomy mean?
Tetrasomy means the condition of being tetrasomic.
What part of speech is tetrasomy?
Tetrasomy is a noun.
What is the plural of tetrasomy?
The plural of tetrasomy is tetrasomies.

Words near tetrasomy in the dictionary

  1. tetrasome
  2. tetrasomes
  3. tetrasomic
  4. tetrasomics
  5. tetrasomies
  6. tetrasomy
  7. tetraspace
  8. tetraspan
  9. tetraspanin
  10. tetraspanins
  11. tetraspans

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