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AMPHIDIPLOID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does amphidiploid mean?
• AMPHIDIPLOID (noun)
The noun AMPHIDIPLOID has 1 sense:
1. (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Familiarity information: AMPHIDIPLOID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("amphidiploid" 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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