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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the karyoplasm, or nuclear plasm of the cell.

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  • The principle that ploidy level, or the number of copies of the chromosomes, is generally correlated with cell size was first described as the karyoplasmic ratio about one hundred years ago by Boveri, Hertwig, and their colleagues

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Adrienne H. K. Roeder et al. 2010

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