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Definition of Pentaploid
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentaploid
Literary usage of Pentaploid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The first consideration is that the other (or second) pentaploid metaphase ...
Chromosome spread presented as a pentaploid by Volpe and Earley (1). ..."
2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"Most of the tetraploid forms and all of the pentaploid and hexaploid ones show
a partial reduction involving 14 or 28 chromosomes. ..."
3. Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering for Crop Plant Improvement, Bibliography by Robert Warmbrodt (1995)
"When an apomictic pentaploid accession with an alien genome (2n = 5x = 45) was
crossed with tetraploid apomictic ..."