Definition of Pentaploid

1. Adjective. (genetics) That has five haploid sets of chromosomes ¹

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Definition of Pentaploid

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentaploid

pentaoxolane
pentapeptide
pentapeptides
pentapetalous
pentaphene
pentaphenes
pentaphenyl
pentaphosphaferrocene
pentaphosphate
pentaphosphide
pentaphosphides
pentaphosphorylated
pentaphyllous
pentapiperide fumarate
pentapiperium methylsulfate
pentaploid (current term)
pentaploidies
pentaploids
pentaploidy
pentapodies
pentapody
pentaprism
pentaprismo-
pentaprisms
pentaptote
pentaptotes
pentaptych
pentaptychs
pentaquark
pentaquarks

Literary usage of Pentaploid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The first consideration is that the other (or second) pentaploid metaphase ... Chromosome spread presented as a pentaploid by Volpe and Earley (1). ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"Most of the tetraploid forms and all of the pentaploid and hexaploid ones show a partial reduction involving 14 or 28 chromosomes. ..."

3. Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering for Crop Plant Improvement, Bibliography by Robert Warmbrodt (1995)
"When an apomictic pentaploid accession with an alien genome (2n = 5x = 45) was crossed with tetraploid apomictic ..."

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