NALT

Preferred term

aneuploidy

Topic

The chromosomal constitution of cells which deviate from the normal by the addition or subtraction of chromosomes, chromosome pairs, or chromosome fragments. In a normally diploid cell the loss of a chromosome pair is termed nullisomy, the loss of a single chromosome is monosomy, the addition of a chromosome pair is tetrasomy, the addition of a single chromosome is trisomy.

ploidy

aneuploids

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

2485

Spanish

aneuploidia

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/8824

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 6/14/16