Types of polyploids


Types of polyploids
    Ployploidy has played an important role in the speciation within the plant kingdom and the number of our cultivated crops is polyploids.
    Classification of polyploids

    Polyploids

    Euploids

    Aneuploids

    Autopolyploid

    Allopolyploids


    Triploids

    Teraploids


    Monosomic

    Tetraploids

    Hexaploids


    Nullisomic

    Pentaploids

    Octaploids


    Trisomic

    Septaploids
    Hexaploids


    Tetrasomics

    Octaploids




    Features
    1. Have larger vegetative parts
    2. Slower in growth and flowering.
    3. Thick and large flower and fruits than diploids.
    4. Reduced fertility due to irregulaer meiosis

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