homoploid: Meaning and Definition of

ho•mo•ploid

Pronunciation: (hō'mu-ploid", hom'u-), [key]
— adj. Genetics.
  1. of an organism or a cell whose set of chromosomes exhibits the same degree of ploidy as an organism or cell with which it is compared.
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