Term Name:	maintenance of imaginal histoblast diploidy
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Definition:	The negative regulation of the differentiation of polytenized larval hypodermal cells from abdominal histoblasts. The abdominal histoblasts remain a small cluster of diploid cells among the polytenized larval hypodermal cells.
Ontology:	GO: Biological Process [GO:0007489]    QuickGO    AmiGO