dictionary help| allotetraploid --> alloploid | medical dictionary |
Relating to a hybrid individual or cell with two or more sets of chromosomes derived from two different ancestral species; depending on the number of multiples of haploid sets, alloploid's are referred to as allodiploids, allotriploids, allotetraploids, allopentaploids, allohexaploids, etc.
See: heterokaryon.
Origin: allo-+ -ploid
(05 Mar 2000)
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