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Origin and distribution Okra is an allopolyploid of uncertain parentage.

Verbena bonariensis is a member of the South American vervains, which are polyploid and have more than 14 chromosomes.

The resulting hybrid is sterile and must be treated with colchicine to induce polyploidy and thus the ability to reproduce itself.

For example, many fertile polyploid species of ferns formed by interspecific hybridization followed by chromosome doubling.

can also be used to induce polyploidy in plants as an alternative to colchicine.

The polyploid macronucleus found in ciliates divides amitotically.

that plants have a remarkably high tendency for polyploidy.

The current hypothesis about the evolution of the genes needed for nodulation is that they were recruited from other pathways after a polyploidy event.

Her study of apospory and polyploid series in Asplenium scolopendrium was important in understanding the origin and development of the alternation.

Almost all modern cultivated varieties (cultivars) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata.

occur mostly in Northern and Central Europe), have an unusual kind of meiosis that is sometimes called permanent odd polyploidy, although it can occur.

Some plants may form polyploid nuclei.

[citation needed] A polyploidy event 160 million years ago is theorized to have created the ancestral.

Synonyms:

being, organism,

Antonyms:

prokaryote, eukaryote, stander,