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allopolyploidy

allopolyploidynoun

allopolyploidies

Translations

Allopolyploidy is a common phenomenon in plant evolution.

Аллополиплоидия является распространенным явлением в эволюции растений.

Definitions

Polyploidy that arises through hybridization, in which complete chromosome sets are combined from two or more different species.

The fern shows allopolyploidy, having inherited full chromosome sets from two ancestral species.

Synonyms

interspecific polyploidy

hybrid polyploidy