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tetraploid

adjective

  1. having four homologous sets of chromosomes
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.

  1. Having four sets of chromosomes.

    In potato, crosses between the tetraploid cultivated species Solanum tuberosum, and some clones of the diploid wild-type species S. phureja, constitute a method of producing maternal dihaploids.

noun

Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.

  1. A tetraploid cell.
  2. A tetraploid organism.

    The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .