Talk:Polyploidy
From Academic Kids
There is little more than a dicdef here; I propose moving the Haploidy, Diploidy, Haploidisation, Polyploidy, and Aneuploidy pages to Ploidy. You have to read all those articles to understand ploidy anywho. I'll be happy to do the merge after approvial. Lefty 16:03, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)
- also Haplodiploidy. Lefty 16:09, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)
- The rationalistation it should go more like this:
- Ploidy + Haploidy + Haploidisation + Diploidy (regular ploidy)
- Aneuploidy + monosomy + trisomy (abnormal number of chromosomes)
- Polyploidy and its variants (doubling of chromosome numbers) --
I am planning to expnd poliploidy significantly, so a merge would not be helpful at this point.
nixie 22:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
There are triploid species of wheat?
I don't know enough about wheat to definitively reject this, but it sounds absurd. Sporophytes must have a ploidy that is a multiple of two...I can't imagine how a triploid would be fertile.
- Wheat is is hexaploid (6n), which is not the same a triploid (3n). Triploids are normally sterile.--nixie 22:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
