Usually, respiration and breathing are considered same. However, there is a great difference between respiration and breathing. Breathing: This is a constant process, that takes place constantly through out the day. This is a process of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. Respiration:
Polyploidy: Polyploidy,, the condition in which a normally diploid cell or organism acquires one or more additional sets of chromosomes. In other words, the polyploid cell or organism has three or more times the haploid chromosome number. Polyploidy arises as the result of total nondisjunction of chromosomes during mitosis or meiosis. Polyploidy is common among plants and has been, in fact, a major source of speciation in the angiosperms.
Noun. 1. aneuploidy-an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete). abnormalcy, abnormality-an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies.1  Facebook.nÂ·euÂ·ploid. adj. Having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the haploid number for the species. n. A cell or an organism characterized by an aneuploid chromosome number.