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HETEROPLOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heteroploid mean? 

HETEROPLOID (noun)
  The noun HETEROPLOID has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speciesplay

  Familiarity information: HETEROPLOID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HETEROPLOID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("heteroploid" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)


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