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- noun genetics The condition where
cells have four of eachchromosome .
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Examples
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Evidence for degenerate tetraploidy in bdelloid rotifers.
Is DNA Repair a Substitute For Sex? Staq Mavlen 2008
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Evidence for degenerate tetraploidy in bdelloid rotifers.
Archive 2008-04-01 Staq Mavlen 2008
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The chromosome number of 2n = 52 suggests tetraploidy.
Chapter 16 1990
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Improvement of Plantago ovate Forsk. through tetraploidy and mutation breeding Indian Journal of Agricultural Science, 45, 426 - 429.
Chapter 5 1953
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But giantism may occur without tetraploidy, and vice versa.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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The intimate connection between tetraploidy, aneuploidy and cancer development suggests that Nek7 deregulation can induce oncogenesis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs H Salem 2010
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Maize's tetraploidy was recent enough a lot of the genes that have been killed by deletions like still hanging around.
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Its current haploid number of ten is the result of breaking and joining twenty chromosomes present right after the tetraploidy.
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