A polyploid cell.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The taxa form a polyploid complex: most are tetraploids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Although it can occur as a polyploid, it is primarily diploid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

We find numbers such as 32 representative of a polyploid situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

Although it can occur as a polyploid, it is primarily diploid (N = 10).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

This is why some polyploid plants tend to be larger and have larger cells that the parental species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junk DNA, Junk Science, and The Onion Test - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It is a diploid species (2n = 26) over most of its range; a polyploid (2n = 52) has been recorded from Israel (Halevy 1971).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Wendel 2008 Partitioned expression of duplicated genes during development and evolution of a single cell in a polyploid plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

LEUC, PALL and one subspecies of DIVE are polyploid (104 chromosomes), while the other species are diploid (52 or 56 chromosomes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 28] Reference

Yesterday Mr. Bolten asked the question whether or not some walnuts that have large nuts could possibly be tetraploid or polyploid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

As with other African acacias, A. tortilis is a polyploid complex most are tetraploids (2n = 4x = 52); ssp. raddiana is an octoploid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 17] Reference

He pointed out that, among other things, all of - Lansing's long-lived rotifers showed characteristics in common with polyploid individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

When the feeding of the irradiated diet was stopped, the proportion of polyploid cells returned to the control level within a maximum of 6 weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

If the diet was stored initially for 6 weeks following irradiation before being fed to the animals no increase in the number of polyploid cells was noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

In diploid or polyploid, sexually reproducing, multicellular organisms, this is a critical source of phentoypic variability between parents and offspring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victim of the Wedge? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

One of these species is a “polyploid” of the other, that is, it developed from the other species when a chromosomal abnormality left some individuals with twice the normal number of chromosomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Feeding of freshly irradiated wheat resulted in significantly increased incidence of polyploid cells in bone marrow, aneuploid cells in testis, reduction in number of spermatogonia of types A, B and resting primary spermatocytes as well as a higher mutagenic index.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

Cardamine (Brassicaceae) taxa from closely related polyploid complexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In the flowering plants, many polyploid species complexes display evolutionary radiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

"In my lab I'm starting to ask why there is a persistence of polyploid genes," Schlueter said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Within the wheat tribe, about three-quarters of the taxa are of polyploid origin (Löve, 1984).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Achillea collina is a widespread tetraploid species within the Achillea millefolium polyploid complex (Asteraceae-Anthemideae).    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Such repeated hybridizations are likely the cause of the great genetic and phenotypic variation and ecological differentiation of the polyploid taxa in Achillea millefolium agg.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

To this day, there is no evidence of mammals having polyploidous traits save one rat that was found in Argentina, that was shown to have a 4n polyploid, with a chromosome number of 102.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Furthermore, although many polyploid species have formed repeatedly, patterns of genome evolution and gene expression are largely unknown for natural polyploid populations of independent origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The scientists 'exhaustive survey of published phylogenetic and genomic data also shows that plant lineages starting with a polyploid ancestor appear to be no more successful at spawning species than diploid plants, which have two sets of chromosomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

Schlueter stresses, however, that soybean's polyploidy alone is not the whole story: "In Arabidopsis (the first sequenced plant and also an ancient polyploid), you only have 20% of the genome showing a signature of duplication - it has kicked out 80% of the genes that were duplicated," Schlueter said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Digital PCR on single symbiont cells isolated from the bacteriome of the green sharpshooter Draeculacephala minerva bacteriome allowed us to assess that this bacteria is polyploid with genome copies ranging from approximately 200-900 per cell, making it a most suitable target for single cell finishing efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Although it can occur as a polyploid, it is primarily diploid (N =.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference