ploidy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ploidy
Example Sentences
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Most organisms have a ploidy level of 2, meaning that they have two sets of chromosomes due to presence of homologous pairs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In mitosis, both the parent and the daughter nuclei are at the same ploidy level—diploid for most plants and animals.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
For example, in the 1980s and 1990s ploidy in neuroblastoma48 and cytogenetic abnormalities in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia49 were used to determine the composition and strength of the cytotoxic chemotherapy required to treat these cancers.
From Nature ● Oct. 13, 2015
As a result, it is impossible to split the assembled genome of into haploid sets: the apparent ploidy level of is scale-dependent, with a tetraploid structure at gene scale versus chromosome-scale haploidy.
From Nature ● Aug. 21, 2013
The homologous chromosomes separate into different nuclei during meiosis I causing a reduction of ploidy level.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
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