Aneuploidy vs Polyploidy - What's the difference?
aneuploidy | polyploidy |
(genetics) The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number of the organism in question.
(label) The state or condition of being a polyploid; having more than the usual two homologous sets of chromosomes.
*2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 90:
*:As they mature, the DNA is replicated several times but the cell does not divide, a condition known as polyploidy which allows cells to increase in size.
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In genetics terms the difference between aneuploidy and polyploidy
is that aneuploidy is the condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number of the organism in question while polyploidy is the state or condition of being a polyploid; having more than the usual two homologous sets of chromosomes.aneuploidy
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(-)Double or quits, passage=This propensity to polyploidy helps account for the diversity (and thus success) of flowering plants, in particular. It is also known that flowering plants sailed majestically through the life-destroying asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, which did for the dinosaurs and many other animals.}}