Medical term:

allotetraploid



al·lo·ploid

(al'ō-ployd),
Relating to a hybrid individual or cell with two or more sets of chromosomes derived from two different ancestral species; depending on the number of multiples of haploid sets, alloploids are referred to as allodiploids, allotriploids, allotetraploids, allopentaploids, allohexaploids, etc.
See also: heterokaryon.
[allo- + -ploid]
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allotetraploid

a form of polyploidy; see ALLOPOLYPLOID.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005


allotetraploidy

Having two diploid sets of chromosomes each derived from a different parental species, resulting in an allopolyploid organism.
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