aneuploid
Describes a cell or organism which has an abnormal total number of chromosomes and where numbers of individual chromosomes are out of proportion with the numbers of the other chromosomes. Too many chromosomes is called hyperploidy; too few is called hypoploidy. Aneuploidy is the opposite of euploidy. Selected aneuploid links:
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