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How To Use triploid In A Sentence

• The aim of this work was to assess the fertility and breeding potential of the triploid and aneuploid hybrids with a view to developing an improved vine cactus crop.
• The first hypothesis assumes that triploidy is associated with the origin of parthenogenesis and that both diploid and tetraploid parthenogenetic forms are derived.
• In triploids, three separate haploid chromosome sets have been observed, as well as one diploid and one haploid set.
• In their opinion, this helps spread the fishing pressure and tends to hold down the practice of "creaming" -- throwing smaller fish back in hopes of catching larger triploids for a limit. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
• Although triploidy and haploidy of chromosomal regions in humans often cause viable or semiviable developmental defects, it is difficult to identify regions of the genome that are haplolethal.
• All respect to the Konrads, as they are working hard, smart, and skillfully on a unique fishery, but I feel that the triploids should be asterisked since they are genetically modified. New Record Brown vs. New Record Rainbow: Apples and Oranges?
• The bad is that the avidly-sought "triploid" rainbow of 1 to 2 pounds which the agency purchases from a private contractor is down substantially this year for two reasons. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
• Little is known about the transition from diploidy to polyploidy but in some species, triploids are thought to function as intermediates in this transition.
• The first stage, grain enlargement, involves early, rapid division of the zygote and triploid nucleus.
• Little is known about the transition from diploidy to polyploidy but in some species, triploids are thought to function as intermediates in this transition.