Autopolyploidy vs Allopolyploidy - What's the difference?
autopolyploidy | allopolyploidy | Antonyms |
(genetics) A form of polyploidy (having more than the usual number of chromosomes) that results from the interbreeding of different species.
* 2008 November 23, Zhongfu Ni, et al.'', “Altered circadian rhythms regulate growth vigour in hybrids and allopolyploids”, ''Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07523:?
Autopolyploidy is an antonym of allopolyploidy.
As nouns the difference between autopolyploidy and allopolyploidy
is that autopolyploidy is the property of being autopolyploid while allopolyploidy is (genetics) a form of polyploidy (having more than the usual number of chromosomes) that results from the interbreeding of different species.allopolyploidy
English
Noun
(-)- Several important crops such as wheat, cotton and canola are of allopolyploidy that contains two or more divergent genomes, and some plants and animals exist as interspecific hybrids.