ADJECTIVE
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of a cell or organism having three complete sets of chromosomes
human triploid fetuses are usually spontaneously aborted
How To Use triploid In A Sentence
- The aleurone is part of the triploid maize endosperm whereas the coleoptile, scutellum, scutellar node, and root are derived from the developing embryo.
- human triploid fetuses are usually spontaneously aborted
- The diploid, the triploid and the pentaploid hybrids tested had the expected number of two, three and five rDNA hybridization sites, respectively.
- The populations showed continuous morphological variation connecting the species, but karyotypically they consisted of only three types of plants: diploids, triploids, and tetraploids.
- Two samples from the original data set were omitted because one was from a triploid plant and the other from a tetraploid.
- Crossing experiments and field observations have shown that triploid individuals are sterile and no fruits are produced.
- Abnormal diploid, triploid and tetraploid nuclei with separated dual color signals were clearly distinguishable from normal nuclei.
- So-called triploid fish are unable to reach maturity and so are unable to breed.
- Only triploid or late-maturing rainbows are used, with steelheads, golden, tiger and blue trout.
- In humans, 10% of spontaneous miscarriages are due to triploidy, but triploids of fish and amphibians can grow to adults and some species are even fixed in the triploid state.