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Definition of Tetraploidy
1. Noun. (genetics) The condition where cells have four of each chromosome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetraploidy
1. [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetraploidy
Literary usage of Tetraploidy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 2nd International Symposium on Genetic Manipulation in Crops by A. Mujeeb-Kazi, L. A. Sitch, International Rice Research Institute (1989)
"The major effect of in vitro callus culture on the S guianensis line used was a
relatively high rate of induction of tetraploidy. The fact that tetraploids ..."
2. University of California Publications in Botany by University of California, Berkeley (1922)
"Unless tetraploidy successively originates within the growing point, ...
There appears to be a striking contrast between tetraploidy in roots of diploid ..."
3. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"The most interesting results on tetraploidy are those of Elie and Emile Marchal
on certain mosses, for they have been able to produce tetraploid types ..."
4. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"Unless tetraploidy is the simpler procedure we should a priori suppose that
increasing (or decreasing) in pairs would, on the theory of chance alone, ..."
5. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"This is what I understand by tetraploidy. There is some direct evidence that
doubling may occur. If a new race or species is ever established in this way, ..."
6. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"This condition is termed tetraploidy because it shows four times the gametic
number of chromosomes. When a normal diploid Datura is crossed with a tet- ..."
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