polyploidy
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polyploidy (countable and uncountable, plural polyploidies)
- (uncountable, genetics) The condition of being polyploid or the process of becoming polyploid.
- 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 90:
- As they mature, the DNA is replicated several times but the cell does not divide, a condition known as polyploidy which allows cells to increase in size.
- 2014 June 28, “Double or quits”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8893:
- This propensity to polyploidy helps account for the diversity (and thus success) of flowering plants, in particular. It is also known that flowering plants sailed majestically through the life-destroying asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, which did for the dinosaurs and many other animals.
- (countable, genetics) An instance of being polyploid.
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state or condition of being a polyploid
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