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WGD

WGD is the initialism of whole-genome duplication.

WGD is the abbreviation of weight gold.

Meaning of whole-genome duplication

Noun

whole-genome duplication (plural whole-genome duplications, abbreviation WGD)

  1. A form of polyploidy in which an organism has duplicate copies of its entire genome

Forms of WGD

pluralWGDs

Questions about WGD

What is WGD the initialism of?
WGD is the initialism of whole-genome duplication.

Words near WGD in the dictionary

  1. WGA
  2. wgadna
  3. wgadnas
  4. WGARA
  5. wgat
  6. WGD
  7. WGM
  8. wgmi
  9. WGMs
  10. WGR
  11. WGRs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WGD (page history and authors); whole-genome duplication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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