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Interbreeding vs Allopolyploidy - What's the difference?

interbreeding | allopolyploidy |

As nouns the difference between interbreeding and allopolyploidy

is that interbreeding is breeding within a narrow range of individuals while allopolyploidy is (genetics) a form of polyploidy (having more than the usual number of chromosomes) that results from the interbreeding of different species.

As a verb interbreeding

is .

interbreeding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • breeding within a narrow range of individuals

    • allopolyploidy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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:?
    • 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.

    Antonyms

    * autopolyploidy

    Related terms

    * allopolyploid

    See also

    * (Polyploidy)