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Meaning of autotetraploid in English:

autotetraploid

Pronunciation /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)ˈtɛtrəplɔɪd/

noun

Biology

  • A tetraploid organism in which the four sets of chromosomes are produced by the duplication of the chromosomes of a single diploid species.

adjective

Biology

  • Of an organism or population: characterized by autotetraploidy.

Origin

1930s; earliest use found in John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist. From auto- + tetraploid.