Tetraploid

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  • adjective. Having four times the haploid number of chromosomes in the cell nucleus.
  • noun. A tetraploid individual.
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  • adjective. having four times the haploid number of chromosomes in a cell nucleus
  • noun. a tetraploid organism
  • Word Usage
    "The organization of the bdelloid genome is tetraploid, that is, instead of the more usual one pair of chromosomes, there are 2 pairs of similar chromosomes."
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