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  • noun uncountable, genetics The state of being triploid, having three sets of chromosomes.
  • noun countable, genetics An instance of being triploid.

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Examples

  • If its triploid its not the mother of anything ..... the deal with inducing triploidy is it creates a fish that won't spawn.

    New (Pending) All-Tackle World Record Rainbow Trout Caught in Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Lake 2009

  • If its triploid its not the mother of anything ..... the deal with inducing triploidy is it creates a fish that won't spawn.

    New (Pending) All-Tackle World Record Rainbow Trout Caught in Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Lake 2009

  • There is scientific evidence that the telomeres at the ends of your chromosomes (a length of DNA that contains largely "filler" and termination codes) do shorten with age, and this is possibly what she is alluding to (through the looking glass), but every cell in your body has a full complement of DNA, except in rare cases, such as triploidy where all the cells in you bod have the same amount of extra DNA.

    Watch With Mothers 2009

  • There is scientific evidence that the telomeres at the ends of your chromosomes (a length of DNA that contains largely "filler" and termination codes) do shorten with age, and this is possibly what she is alluding to (through the looking glass), but every cell in your body has a full complement of DNA, except in rare cases, such as triploidy where all the cells in you bod have the same amount of extra DNA.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • It is also more likely in female gestation, multiple gestation, triploidy, trisomy 21, and a personal history of the condition in prior pregnancies.

    Emaxhealth 2010

  • There are several possible explanations for the malignancy of the CH-ES1 and the teratocarcinoma lines, including partial triploidy

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Outi Hovatta et al. 2010

  • It's written by Andrew Womack about his wife's triploidy pregnancy.

    Mihow 2009

  • For those of you that don't know this already, I had a triploidy pregnancy.

    Mihow 2009

  • I was amazed at the number of conditions I had never heard of - though I shouldn't be, as these most serious ones never come up in veterinary medicine and may have something to do with the complexity of the human genome, fertility treatments, and other factors: twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, trisomy 13, triploidy, fragile X syndrome, severe osteogenesis imperfecta,

    WordPress.com News brebisnoire 2009

  • CMED can also detect Trisomy 21, Trisomy 18, Trisomy 13, Turner syndrome, and triploidy.

    China Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

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