aneusomy

aneusomy
an·eu·so·my (anґu-so″me) the condition of being made up of cells that contain different numbers of chromosomes. It occurs widely in flowering plants. In animals, it generally denotes a diploid organism with subpopulations of aneuploid somatic cells.

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