polyteny

Related to polyteny: lampbrush chromosome, endomitosis

pol·y·tene

(pŏl′ē-tēn′)

adj.

Relating to or having large chromosomes formed by repeated DNA replication and consisting of many chromatids side by side.

[poly- + Latin taenia, band (from Greek tainiā, ribbon; see ten- in Indo-European roots).]

pol′y·te′nic adj.

pol′y·te′ny n.

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polyteny

(ˈpɒlɪˌtiːnɪ)

(Biology) biology the condition of being polytene

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References in periodicals archive ?

Polyploidy and Polyteny in Salivary Gland Cells of Lestodiplosis spp.

Michael James Denham White 1910-1983

Endopolyploidy and polyteny in differentiation's and evolutions.

The problem of giant cells in biology

The sometimes reported "polyploid" levels of DNA in shoot and root apical cells may instead reflect some other method of DNA amplification such as polyteny (Vallade & Bugnon, 1979; Kurth & Gifford, 1985).