triploid in A Sentence

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Modern banana and plantain plants are what is known as"Triploid", meaning they have three copies of each of the chromosomes that carry their genes.

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Some breeding programs have made tetraploid plants by crossing Triploid and diploid varieties, but this depends on infrequent genetic events, and so it takes time and effort.

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But they can be crossed with one another to bring together useful traits, and then with ordinary diploid trees to make a new generation of Triploid seedless bananas.

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Of these, the Triploid(sterile fish with 50% more chromosomes than normal) Chinese grass carp(Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a plant-eating fish that can be stocked in ponds to provide effective, economical plant control.

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The fossilised fragments are identical to the contemporary plant in cell structure and shape, which indicates that both plants are Triploid and therefore clones due to the extreme rarity of the occurrence of Triploidy.

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