Index of genetics articles

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See also: Outline of genetics

Genetics (from Ancient Greek γενετικός genetikos, “genite” and that from γένεσις genesis, “origin”[1][2][3]), a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.[4]

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to genetics include:


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A[]

  • Acentric chromosome
  • Achondroplasia
  • Active site
  • Adam's Curse
  • Adaptation
  • Adenine
  • Adenosine
  • Adenovirus
  • Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)
  • Ala
  • Alagille syndrome
  • Albino
  • Alcoholism
  • Alkylating agent
  • Allele
  • Allele frequency
  • Alleles
  • Allopolyploid
  • Allosteric protein
  • Allozyme
  • Alternative splicing
  • Altruism
  • Alu family
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Amber codon
  • Ames test
  • Amino acid
  • Amino acid sequence
  • Amino acids
  • Amniocentesis
  • Amorph
  • AMP
  • Amphidiploid
  • Amplification
  • Anagenesis
  • Anaphase
  • Aneuploid
  • Aneuploid cell
  • Aneuploidy
  • Angelman syndrome
  • Angiosperm
  • Animal model
  • Annealing
  • Annotation
  • Antibody
  • Anticipation
  • Anticoding strand
  • Anticodon
  • Antigen
  • Antimorph
  • Antiparallel
  • Antisense
  • Antisense RNA
  • Antisense strand
  • Antisense therapy
  • AP endonuclease
  • AP site
  • Apert syndrome
  • Apoptosis
  • Applied genetics
  • Arg
  • Arrayed library
  • Ascospore
  • Ascus
  • Asexual spore
  • Asn
  • Asp
  • Assortative mating
  • Atavism
  • ATP
  • Attenuator
  • Autogamy
  • Autopolyploid
  • Autoradiograph
  • Autoradiography
  • Autosomal dominant
  • Autosome
  • Autotroph
  • Auxotroph
  • Auxotrophic mutant
  • Axoneme

B[]

  • B form DNA
  • Bacillus
  • Back mutation
  • Backcross
  • Bacteria
  • Bacterial conjugation
  • Bacterial lawn
  • Bacteriophage
  • Balbiani ring
  • Barr body
  • Basal body
  • Base
  • Base analogue
  • Base pair
  • Base pairs
  • Base sequence
  • Batesian mimicry
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Bead theory
  • Behavioral genetics
  • Behavioural genetics
  • Beta-galactosidase
  • Bimodal distribution
  • Binary fission
  • Binomial expansion
  • Binomial theorem
  • Biochemical genetics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biolistic
  • Bioremediation
  • Biotechnology
  • Biparental zygote
  • Birth defect
  • Bivalent (genetics)
  • BLAST
  • Blastoderm
  • Blastomere
  • Blastopore
  • Blastula
  • Blending inheritance
  • Blunt-end ligation
  • Bookmarking
  • Brachydactyly
  • Branch migration
  • BRCA1
  • BRCA2
  • Bud
  • Buoyant density
  • Burkitt lymphoma

C[]

  • Cancer
  • Candidate gene
  • Capillary array
  • Carcinogen
  • Carcinoma
  • Carrier
  • Carrier testing
  • Cat coat genetics
  • cDNA
  • cDNA library
  • Cell
  • Centimorgan
  • Central dogma of molecular biology
  • Centromere
  • Chemical base
  • Chimeraplasty
  • Chromomere
  • Chromosomal crossover
  • Chromosomal deletion
  • Chromosome
  • Chromosome banding
  • Chromosome painting
  • Chromosome region p
  • Chromosome region q
  • Classical genetics
  • Cleft lip
  • Cleft palate
  • Clinical geneticist
  • Clone (genetics)
  • Clone bank
  • Cloned DNA
  • Cloning
  • Cloning vector
  • Coccus
  • Code
  • Coding strand
  • Codominance
  • Codon
  • Codon usage bias aka Codon preference
  • Cohesive end
  • Cointegrate
  • Col plasmid
  • Colonoscopy
  • Colony
  • Common ancestry
  • Comparative genomics
  • Compartment
  • Competent
  • Complementary DNA
  • Complementation
  • Complete linkage
  • Complex trait
  • Composite transposon
  • Concordance
  • Conditional mutation
  • Confidence limits
  • Confidentiality
  • Congenital
  • Conjugation tube
  • Consanguineous
  • Consanguinity
  • Consensus sequence
  • Conserved sequence
  • Constant region
  • Constitutive gene
  • Contig
  • Contig map
  • Contig maps
  • Contiguous genes
  • Continuous variation
  • Controlling element
  • Copper fist
  • Corepressor
  • Cosegregation
  • Cosmid
  • Cosmids
  • Cot value
  • Cotransduction
  • Cotransformation
  • Coupling
  • Covariance
  • cpDNA
  • CpG island
  • Craniosynostosis
  • Cri du chat
  • Cross
  • Cross-fertilization
  • Crossbreed
  • Crossover
  • Crossovers
  • Cryptic coloration
  • Culture
  • Cyclic AMP
  • Cys
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Cytidine
  • Cytochrome
  • Cytogenetic map
  • Cytogenetics
  • Cytohet
  • Cytokinesis
  • Cytological band
  • Cytological map
  • Cytoplasm
  • Cytoplasmic trait
  • Cytosine
  • Cytosol

D[]

  • D-loop
  • Darwinian fitness
  • Data warehouse
  • Dauermodification
  • Deficiency
  • Degenerate code
  • Degenerate codon
  • Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
  • Deletion
  • Deletion map
  • Deletion mapping
  • Deme (biology)
  • Dementia
  • Denaturation
  • Deoxyribonuclease
  • Deoxyribonucleotide
  • Deoxyribose
  • Derepressed
  • Determinant
  • Determination
  • Deterministic
  • Developmental biology
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Diakinesis
  • Dicentric chromosome
  • Dictyotene
  • Dideoxy method
  • Differentiation
  • Dihybrid
  • Dihybrid cross
  • Dimerization
  • Dimorphism
  • Dioecious plant
  • Diploid
  • Directed evolution
  • Directed mutagenesis
  • Directed sequencing
  • Directionality (molecular biology)
  • Disease
  • Disruptive selection
  • Distribution
  • DMD
  • DNA
  • DNA bank
  • DNA clone
  • DNA cloning
  • DNA fingerprint
  • DNA glycosylase
  • DNA gyrase
  • DNA hybridization
  • DNA ligase
  • DNA marker
  • DNA polymerase
  • DNA probe
  • DNA repair genes
  • DNA replication
  • DNA sequence
  • DNA sequencing
  • Docking protein
  • Domain
  • Dominant
  • Dominant allele
  • Dosage compensation
  • Dose
  • Dot blotting
  • (Bad Link)
  • Double digest
  • Double helix
  • Doublesex
  • Down syndrome
  • Downstream
  • Draft sequence
  • Duplicate gene
  • Dwarfism
  • Dyad
  • Dyad symmetry
  • Dystonia

E[]

F[]

  • F factor
  • F plus cell
  • F- cell
  • F-duction
  • F-pili
  • F1 generation
  • F2 generation
  • Factorial
  • Familial cancer
  • Familial trait
  • Family selection
  • Fanconi anemia
  • Fate map
  • Fecundity selection
  • Feedback inhibition
  • Fibroblasts
  • Filial generation
  • Fingerprint
  • Fingerprinting
  • FISH (Fluorescent in situ hybridization)
  • Fitness (W)
  • Fixed allele
  • Flow cytometry
  • Flow karyotyping
  • Fluctuation test
  • Fluorescent in situ hybridization
  • FMET
  • Footprinting
  • Forensics
  • Founder effect
  • Fragile site
  • Fragile X syndrome
  • Frameshift
  • Frameshift mutation
  • Fraternal twin
  • Frequency histogram
  • Fruiting body
  • Full gene sequence
  • Functional genomics
  • Fundamental number

G[]

  • G-banding
  • Galton Laboratory
  • Gamete
  • Gametophyte
  • Gastrulation
  • GC-rich area
  • Gel electrophoresis
  • Gene
  • Gene chip technology
  • Gene cloning
  • Gene complex
  • Gene conversion
  • Gene dose
  • Gene duplication
  • Gene expression
  • Gene family
  • Gene flow
  • Gene frequency
  • Gene fusion
  • Gene interaction
  • Gene library
  • Gene locus
  • Gene map
  • Gene mapping
  • Gene markers
  • Gene mutation
  • Gene orders
  • Gene pool
  • Gene prediction
  • Gene product
  • Gene regulatory network
  • Gene testing
  • Gene theft
  • Gene therapy
  • Gene transfer
  • Genetic algorithm
  • Genetic architecture
  • Genetic carrier
  • Genetic code
  • Genetic counseling
  • Genetic deletion
  • Genetic determinism
  • Genetic disorder
  • Genetic diversity
  • Genetic drift
  • Genetic engineering
  • Genetic genealogy
  • Genetic history of Europe
  • Genetic illness
  • Genetic informatics
  • Genetic linkage map
  • Genetic load
  • Genetic map
  • Genetic marker
  • Genetic material
  • Genetic mosaic
  • Genetic polymorphism
  • Genetic screen
  • Genetic screening
  • Genetic testing
  • Genetic variance
  • Genetic variation
  • Geneticist
  • Genetics
  • Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia
  • Genome
  • Genome map
  • Genome project
  • Genome screen
  • Genomic library
  • Genomic sequence
  • Genomics
  • Genophore
  • Genotype
  • Germ cell
  • Germ line
  • Germ-line theory
  • Germinal mutation
  • Germline mutation
  • Giemsa stain
  • Gln
  • Glutamic acid
  • Gly
  • God gene
  • Gradient
  • gRNA
  • Ground state
  • Group 1 intron
  • Group II intron
  • Group selection
  • Guanine
  • Guanosine
  • Guide RNA
  • Gynandromorph

H[]

  • H-Y antigen
  • Haemoglobin (hb)
  • Haemophilia
  • Haplodiploidy
  • Haploid
  • Haploidization
  • Haploinsufficiency
  • Haplotype
  • Hardy–Weinberg law
  • Harlequin chromosome
  • HAT medium
  • Hayflick limit
  • Heat-shock protein
  • Helicase
  • Hemizygous
  • Hemizygous gene
  • Hemophilia
  • Hereditary cancer
  • Hereditary mutation
  • Heredity
  • Heritability
  • Hermaphrodite
  • Heterochromatin
  • Heteroduplex
  • Heteroduplex DNA
  • Heterogametic sex
  • Heterogamy
  • Genetic heterogeneity
  • Heterokaryon
  • Heteroplasmon
  • Heteroplasmy
  • Heterothallic
  • Heterotroph
  • Heterozygosity
  • Heterozygote
  • Heterozygous
  • Heterozygous DNA
  • Hexaploid
  • Hfr cell
  • Human Genome Project
  • HHMI
  • His
  • Histone
  • HnRNA
  • Hogness box
  • Holandric trait
  • Holoenzyme
  • Holoprosencephaly
  • Homeo-box
  • Homeo-domain
  • Homeobox
  • Homeosis
  • Homogametic sex
  • Homolog
  • Homologue
  • Homology
  • Homoplasmy
  • Homothallic
  • Homothallic fungus
  • Homozygote
  • Homozygous
  • Homozygous gene pair
  • Hormone
  • Host range
  • Hot spot
  • Housekeeping genes
  • HUGO
  • Human gene therapy
  • Human genetics
  • Human genome
  • Human Genome Project
  • Huntington's disease
  • Hybrid (biology)
  • Hybrid DNA
  • Hybrid dysgenesis
  • Hybrid plasmid
  • Hybrid zone
  • Hybridoma
  • Hydrogen bond
  • Hydroxyapatite
  • Hypermorph
  • Hyperploid
  • Hypervariable region
  • Hypomorph
  • Hypoploid
  • Hypostatic gene

I[]

  • Ichthyosis
  • Identical twin
  • Identity by descent
  • Identity by type
  • Idiogram
  • Idiotypic variation
  • Ile
  • Imago
  • Immune system
  • immunity
  • Immunoglobulin (Ig)
  • Immunoglobulin gene
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Immunotherapy
  • Imprinting
  • Indigenous Amerindian genetics
  • In situ
  • Introduction to genetics
  • In vitro
  • In vitro mutagenesis
  • In vivo
  • Inbreeding
  • Incestuous
  • Inclusive fitness
  • Incomplete dominance
  • Inducer
  • Induction
  • Industrial melanism
  • Informed consent
  • Inherit
  • Inherited
  • Initiation codon
  • Initiation
  • Initiation
  • Initiator protein
  • Inosine
  • Insertion
  • Insertional mutation
  • Intercalating agent
  • Interference
  • Interkinesis
  • Interphase
  • Interrupted mating
  • Intersex
  • Interstitial region
  • Intron
  • Introns
  • Inversion
  • Ionizing radiation
  • IR
  • IS
  • IS element
  • Isochromosome
  • Isoenzyme
  • Isoschizomer
  • Isotope
  • Isozyme

J[]

  • Junk DNA

K[]

  • Kappa particle
  • Kartagener's syndrome
  • Karyokinesis
  • Karyotype
  • Kilobase
  • Kin selection
  • Kinetochore
  • Klinefelter syndrome
  • Knockout

L[]

  • Lac operon
  • Lagging strand
  • Lambda phage
  • Lateral inhibition
  • Lawn
  • Leader sequence (mRNA)
  • Leading strand
  • Leaky mutant
  • Lesion
  • Lethal gene
  • Leu
  • Leucine zipper
  • Leukemia
  • Li-Fraumeni syndrome
  • Library (genetics)
  • Ligase
  • Line
  • Linkage
  • Linkage analysis
  • Linkage equilibrium
  • Linkage group
  • Linkage map
  • Linking number
  • Locus
  • Lod score
  • Lod score method
  • Lymphocyte
  • Lymphoma
  • Lyon hypothesis
  • Lys
  • Lysate
  • Lysis
  • Lysogen
  • Lysogenic

M[]

  • Macromolecule
  • Macrorestriction map
  • Malformation
  • Manx
  • Mapping
  • Marfan syndrome
  • Marker
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Maternal effect
  • Maternal inheritance
  • Mating type
  • Mean
  • Medium
  • Megabase
  • Meiocyte
  • Meiosis
  • Meiospore
  • Melanoma
  • Melting of DNA
  • Mendel's first law
  • Mendel's second law
  • Mendelian ratio
  • Merozygote
  • Messenger RNA
  • Met
  • Metabolism
  • Metafemale
  • Metamale
  • Metamere
  • Metaphase
  • Metaphase plate
  • Metastasis
  • Methylation
  • Microarray
  • Microbial genetics
  • Microinjection
  • Micronuclei
  • Microsatellite
  • Microtubules
  • Midparent value
  • Migration
  • Mimicry
  • Minimal medium
  • Mismatch repair
  • Missense mutation
  • Mitochondrial DNA
  • Mitochondrial Eve
  • Human mitochondrial genetics
  • Mitochondrion
  • Mitosis
  • Mitotic apparatus
  • Mitotic crossover
  • Mode
  • Model organisms
  • Modeling
  • Modifier gene
  • Molecular biology
  • Molecular chaperone
  • Molecular farming
  • Molecular genetics
  • Molecular imprinting
  • Molecular medicine
  • Molecule
  • Monocistronic mRNA
  • Monoclonal antibody
  • Monoecious plant
  • Monogenic disorder
  • Monohybrid
  • Monohybrid cross
  • Monoploid
  • Monosomic
  • Monosomy
  • Morbid map
  • Morphogenesis
  • Mosaic (genetics)
  • Mosaicism
  • Mouse model
  • mRNA
  • mtDNA
  • Mu phage
  • Mullerian mimicry
  • Multifactorial
  • Multimeric structure
  • Multiple allelism
  • Multiplexing
  • Murine
  • Mutability
  • Mutagen
  • Mutagenicity
  • Mutant
  • Mutant allele
  • Mutant screening
  • Mutation
  • Mutation breeding
  • Mutation event
  • Mutation frequency
  • Mutation rate
  • Mutational load
  • Muton
  • Myeloma
  • Myotonic dystrophy

N[]

  • N-end rule
  • Narrow heritability
  • Natural selection
  • Negative control
  • Neo-Darwinism
  • Neomorph
  • Neoplasm
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Neurospora
  • Neutral mutation
  • Neutral petite
  • Newborn screening
  • NF
  • Nickase
  • Nicking
  • NIH
  • Nitrogen base
  • Nitrogenous base
  • Non-coding DNA
  • Non-coding strand
  • Non-disjunction
  • Non-histone protein
  • Non-Mendelian ratio
  • Nonsense codon
  • Nonsense mutation
  • Nonsense suppressor
  • Noonan syndrome
  • Norm of reaction
  • Normal distribution
  • Northern analysis
  • Northern blot
  • NPD
  • Nuclear transfer
  • Nuclease
  • Nucleic acid
  • Nucleoid
  • Nucleolar organizer
  • Nucleolus
  • Nucleoprotein
  • Nucleoside
  • Nucleosome
  • Nucleotide
  • Nucleotide pair
  • Nucleotides
  • Nucleus
  • Null allele
  • Null hypothesis
  • Nullisomic
  • Nurse cell

O[]

P[]

  • P (peptidyl) site
  • P element
  • P1
  • P53
  • Palindrome
  • Panmictic
  • Paralogous genes
  • Paramecin
  • Parameters
  • Parental
  • Parental ditype
  • Parental imprinting
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Parthenogenesis
  • Partial digest
  • Partial dominance
  • Pascal's triangle
  • Patent
  • Pathogen
  • Pattern formation
  • PCR
  • PD
  • Pedigree
  • Penetrance
  • Peptide
  • Peptide bond
  • Peptidyl transferase
  • PEST hypothesis
  • Petite mutation
  • Phage
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Pharming (genetics)
  • Phe
  • Phenocopy
  • Phenotype
  • Phenotypic variance
  • Phenylketonuria
  • Pheromone
  • Phosphodiester bond
  • Photoreactivation
  • Phyletic evolution
  • Phyletic gradualism
  • Phylogenetic tree
  • Phylogenetics
  • Physical map
  • Piebald
  • Pilus
  • PKU
  • Plant breeding
  • Plasmid
  • Plastid
  • Pleiotropy
  • Pluripotency
  • Point mutation
  • Poisson distribution
  • Polar body
  • Polar mutation
  • Polar overdominance
  • Polarity
  • Pollen grain
  • Poly(A) tail
  • Polyacrylamide
  • Polycistronic
  • Polycistronic mRNA
  • Polydactyly
  • Polygene
  • Polygenic disorder
  • Polymerase
  • Polymerize
  • Polymorphism
  • Polypeptide
  • Polyploid
  • Polyribosome
  • Polysaccharide
  • Polysome
  • Polytene chromosome
  • Population
  • Population bottleneck
  • Population genetics
  • Position effect
  • Positional cloning
  • Positive control
  • Pre-mRNA
  • Predisposition
  • Prenatal diagnosis
  • Pribnow box
  • Primary oocyte
  • Primary spermatocyte
  • Primary structure
  • Primary transcript
  • Primase
  • Primer
  • Primosome
  • Prion
  • Privacy
  • Pro
  • Probability
  • Probability theory
  • Proband
  • Probe
  • Processivity
  • Product rule
  • Proflavin
  • Progeny testing
  • Prognosis
  • Prokaryote
  • Prokaryotic cell
  • Promoter
  • Pronucleus
  • Proofread
  • Prophage
  • Prophase
  • Prophylactic surgery
  • Proplastid
  • Propositus
  • Prostate cancer
  • Protease
  • Protein
  • Protein splicing
  • Proteome
  • Proteomics
  • Proteus syndrome
  • Proto-oncogene
  • Protoplast
  • Prototroph
  • Provirus
  • Pseudoallele
  • Pseudoautosomal region
  • Pseudodominance
  • Pseudogene
  • Public policy
  • Punnett square
  • Purine
  • Purines
  • Pyrimidine

Q[]

  • Quaternary structure

R[]

S[]

T[]

  • T-cell receptor
  • T-DNA
  • Tandem duplication
  • Targeted mutagenesis
  • TATA box
  • Tay–Sachs disease
  • Technology transfer
  • Telomerase
  • Telomere
  • Telophase
  • Temperate phage
  • Template strand
  • Teratogen
  • Teratogenic
  • Teratogens
  • Terminator sequence
  • Tertiary structure
  • Test cross
  • Tetrad
  • Tetrad analysis
  • Tetraploid
  • Tetratype (T)
  • Theta structure
  • Thr
  • Three-point cross
  • Thymidine
  • Thymine
  • Thymine dimer
  • Ti plasmid
  • Topoisomer
  • Topoisomerase
  • Totipotency
  • Totipotent
  • Toxicogenomics
  • Trait (biological)
  • Trans
  • Trans-acting
  • Transcription
  • Transcription factor
  • Transcriptome
  • Transduction
  • Transfection
  • Transfer RNA
  • Transferase
  • Transform
  • Transformation
  • Transgenic
  • Transgenic organism
  • Transgressive phenotype
  • Transition
  • Transition mutation
  • Translation
  • Translocation
  • Transposable element
  • Transposition
  • Transposon
  • Transversion
  • Triplet
  • Triplet code
  • Triploid
  • Trisomic
  • Trisomy
  • Tritium
  • tRNA
  • Trp
  • Truncation selection
  • Tumour
  • Tumour virus
  • Turner syndrome
  • Twin study
  • Type I and type II errors
  • Tyr

U[]

V[]

  • V-J joining
  • Val
  • Variable region
  • Variance
  • Variegation
  • Vector
  • Viability
  • Virion
  • Viroid
  • Virus
  • VNTR

W[]

  • Wahlund effect
  • Weismann barrier
  • Western blot
  • Wild type
  • Wilms' tumor
  • Wobble
  • Wolfram syndrome

X[]

  • X chromosome
  • X hyperactivation
  • X linkage
  • X linked
  • X-and-Y linkage
  • X-inactivation
  • X:A ratio
  • Xenograft
  • XYY
  • XYY syndrome

Y[]

  • Y chromosome
  • Y linkage
  • Y linked
  • Y-chromosomal Aaron
  • Y-chromosomal Adam
  • YAC
  • Y-chromosome haplogroups in populations of the world

Z[]

  • Z-DNA
  • Zinc finger
  • Zinc-finger protein
  • Zygote

References[]

  1. ^ Genetikos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus
  2. ^ Genesis, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-Eng Lexon", at Perseus
  3. ^ Online Etymology Dictionary
  4. ^ Griffiths et al. (2000), Chapter 1 (Genetics and the Organism): Introduction

See also[]

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