tetraploid
adjective
- having four homologous sets of chromosomes
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραπλός (tetraplós) + Ancient Greek είδος (eídos), equivalent to tetra- + -ploid.
- 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.
- A tetraploid cell.
- A tetraploid organism.
“The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .”