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Tetratype (T) At Biology Glossary

What is it? A tetrad containing four different genotypes, two parental and two recombinant. A spore arrangement in Ascomycetes that consists of two parental and two recombinant spores indicating a single crossover between two linked loci. See parental ditype (PD) and non-parental ditype (NPD).

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