Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such ...

To start, polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of chromosomes. Humans, and most species, are diploid: They have two complete sets of chromosomes, one ...

Polyploidy is the presence in cells of more than a single pair of each chromosome. Polyploidy can be the result of a spontaneous multiplication of a plants genetic material or through ...

some marker chromosomes and aneuploidy. SNP arrays have the added advantage of the ability to identify polyploidy and long stretches of homozygosity that may represent consanguinity or uniparental ...