polyploidy
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- polyploidal adjective
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"It's pretty clear that this polyploidy event predated modern humans and the cultivation of coffee."
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024
Sugarcane's genome is so complex both because it is large and because it contains more copies of chromosomes than a typical plant, a feature called polyploidy.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024
In this new study, Albert and Fukushima's teams discovered that the specialized pitcher trap of the Asian pitcher plant, or Nepenthes, may have been promoted by polyploidy.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023
Tia-Lynn Ashman and Martin Turcotte, evolutionary ecologists at the University of Pittsburgh, have also studied polyploidy in duckweed populations.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023
Dermen, H. and Bain, H. F.—Periclinal and total polyploidy in cranberries induced by colchicine.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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