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Tag: Polyploidy
As part of one of my recent podcasts, I discussed the origin of plant diversity. I wanted to come back to it here for a couple of reasons, primarily being the articles have a larger reach, but also the article format allows me to articulate ideas that are a bit harder to express in a … Continue reading Plant Diversity: Potential for Exploration
Building on the last article’s discussion of heredity and the genome, we need to take some time and discuss polyploidy. Polyploidy is probably a foreign word to many of you but it is a fairly straightforward word to understand. The prefix “poly” means many or multiple. The word “ploid” comes from Greek and roughly translates … Continue reading Polyploidy and the Genome (Research Article)
