mixoploid

mixoploid — noun

1. a living thing whose body contains cells with two or more different counts of ch

1.名詞C2
釋義

a living thing whose body contains cells with two or more different counts of chromosome sets, so its tissues are genetically mixed rather than uniform.

例句

Zola, a geneticist in Lagos, showed that the patient was a mixoploid carrying both normal and triploid cells.

is a mixoploid + carrying [cell-type] cells

Some plants grown from rescued seeds turn out to be mixoploids in the lab.

plural use: turn out to be mixoploids

同義詞
  • chimera

    broader; covers any organism with two genetically distinct cell lines, including from fused embryos

  • mosaic

    closely related; usually implies the difference arose after fertilisation in one organism

反義詞
  • euploid

    an organism whose cells all carry the standard chromosome count

文法句型

a mixoploid + with/of + cell description

用法筆記

Specialist term used in genetics and clinical cytology. The subject is always a whole organism (person, animal, plant), not a single cell — describe the cells inside the organism, not the organism's parts as mixoploid.

常見錯誤

❌Her left arm is a mixoploid.
✅She is a mixoploid because her left arm has cells with different chromosome counts.
💡the term labels the whole organism, not one body part.
❌The blood sample was a mixoploid.
✅The blood sample came from a mixoploid.
💡a sample is not itself a mixoploid; the organism it came from is.