Index of genetics articles

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

Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to genetics include:

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3' end

5' end

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

Assembly

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

Breakage and reunion

Bridging cross

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 aglet

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

Code dictionary

Coding strand

Codominance

Codon

Codon usage bias aka Codon preference

Cohesive end

Cointegrate

Col plasmid

Colicinogenic factor

Colonoscopy

Colony

Common ancestry

Comparative genomics

Compartment

Competence factor

Competent

Complementarity genes

Complementary DNA

Complementation

Complementation test

Complete linkage

Complex trait

Component of fitness

Composite transposon

Concordance

Conditional mutation

Confidence limits

Confidentiality

Congenital

Conjugation tube

Consanguineous

Consanguinity

Consensus sequence

Conservative change

Conserved sequence

Constant region

Constitutive gene

Contig

Contig map

Contig maps

Contiguous genes

Continuous variation

Controlling element

Copper fist

Copy-choice model

Corepressor

Cosegregation

Cosmid

Cosmids

Cot value

Cotransduction

Cotransformation

Coupling

Covariance

cpDNA

CpG island

Craniosynostosis

Cri du chat

cRNA

Cross

Cross-fertilization

Crossbreed

Crossover

Crossover suppressor

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 chromosome

Deletion map

Deletion mapping

Deme (biology)

Dementia

Denaturation

Denaturation map

Denominator element

Deoxyribonuclease

Deoxyribonucleotide

Deoxyribose

Depauperate fauna

Derepressed

Determinant

Determination

Deterministic

Developmental biology

Diabetes mellitus

Diakinesis

Dicentric bridge

Dicentric chromosome

Dictyotene

Dideoxy method

Differentiation

Dihybrid

Dihybrid cross

Dimerization

Dimorphism

Dioecious plant

Diploid

Directed evolution

Directed mutagenesis

Directed sequencing

Directionality (molecular biology)

Discrete generations

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

Dominance variance

Dominant

Dominant allele

Dominant phenotype

Dosage compensation

Dose

Dot blotting

Double crossover (Bad Link)

Double digest

Double helix

Double infection

Double reduction

Doublesex

Down syndrome

Downstream

Draft sequence

Duplicate gene

Dwarfism

Dyad

Dyad symmetry

Dystonia

E

 * E (exit site)

Ecdysone

Ecological genetics

Ectopic expression

Ectopic integration

Electrophoresis

Electroporation

ELSI

Endogenote

Endomitosis

Endonuclease

Endopolyploidy

Endosperm

Enforced outbreeding

Enhancer

Enhancer trap

Enriched medium

Enucleate cell

Enzyme

Epigenetics

Episome

Epistasis

Equational division

Equivalence group

Erythrocytes

Escherichia coli

Ethics

Ethidium

Euchromatin

Eugenics

Eukaryote

Eukaryotic cell

Euploid

Euploidy

European Journal of Human Genetics

Evolution

Evolutionary rate

Excision repair

Exconjugant

Exogenote

Exogenous DNA

Exon

Exon shuffling

Exonuclease

Expected progeny difference

Experimental design

Expressed gene

Expression vector

Expressivity (genetics)

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

Filter enrichment

Fingerprint

Fingerprinting

FISH (Fluorescent in situ hybridization)

Fitness (W)

Fixed allele

Fixed breakage point

Flow cytometry

Flow karyotyping

Fluctuation test

Fluorescent in situ hybridization

FMET

Focus map

Footprinting

Forensics

Forward mutation

Founder effect

Fragile site

Fragile X syndrome

Frameshift

Frameshift mutation

Fraternal twin

Frequency histogram

Fruiting body

Full gene sequence

Functional allele

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 pair

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 dissection

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

Genetics experiments

Genic balance theory

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

Gray crescent

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

Heteroduplex mapping

Heterogametic sex

Heterogamy

Genetic heterogeneity

Heterokaryon

Heterokaryon test

Heteroplasmon

Heteroplasmy

Heterothallic

Heterothallic fungus

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 locus

Hypervariable region

Hypomorph

Hypoploid

Hypostatic gene

I
Ichthyosis

Identical twin

Identity by descent

Identity by type

Idiogram

Idiotypic variation

Idling reaction

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

Inducible operon

Induction

Industrial melanism

Infectious transfer

Informed consent

Inherit

Inherited

Initiation codon

Initiation

Initiation

Initiator protein

Inosine

Insertion

Insertional mutation

Inside marker

Intercalating agent

Interference

Interkinesis

Interphase

Interrupted mating

Intersex

Interstitial region

Intron

Introns

Inversion

Iojap

Ionizing radiation

IR

IS

IS element

Isoaccepting tRNA

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 dgal

Lambda phage

Lateral inhibition

Lawn

Leader peptide gene

Leader sequence (mRNA)

Leader transcript

Leading strand

Leaky mutant

Lesion

Lethal gene

Leu

Leucine zipper

Leukemia

Li-Fraumeni syndrome

Library (genetics)

Ligase

Line

Linear tetrad

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

Lysogenic bacterium

M
Macromolecule

Macrorestriction map

Malformation

Manx

Mapping

Mapping function

Mapping population

Marfan syndrome

Marker

Marker retention

Mass spectrometry

Mate-killer

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

Metagon

Metamale

Metamere

Metaphase

Metaphase plate

Metastasis

Methylation

Metrical variation

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

Mixed codon family

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 particle

Mu phage

Müllerian mimicry

Multifactorial

Multihybrid

Multimeric structure

Multiple allelism

Multiplexing

Murine

Mutability

Mutagen

Mutagenicity

Mutant

Mutant allele

Mutant screening

Mutant site

Mutation

Mutation breeding

Mutation event

Mutation frequency

Mutation rate

Mutational load

Mutator mutation

Muton

Myeloma

Myotonic dystrophy

N
N segment

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-directiveness

Non-disjunction

Non-histone protein

Non-linear tetrad

Non-Mendelian ratio

Non-parental

Non-recombinant

Nonsense codon

Nonsense mutation

Nonsense suppressor

Noonan syndrome

Norm of reaction

Normal distribution

Northern analysis

Northern blot

NPD

Nu body

Nuclear transfer

Nuclease

Nucleic acid

Nucleoid

Nucleolar organizer

Nucleolus

Nucleoprotein

Nucleoside

Nucleosome

Nucleotide

Nucleotide pair

Nucleotides

Nucleus

Null allele

Null hypothesis

Nullisomic

Numerator element

Nurse cell

O
Ochre codon

Okazaki fragment

Oligo

Oligogenic

Oligonucleotide

Oncogene

Oncogenes

Oncovirus

Oocyte

Oogenesis

Oogonia

Opal codon

Open reading frame

Operator (biology)

Operon

Organelle

Organogenesis

Outbreeding

Outside markers

Overdominance

Overlapping clones

Ovum

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 diploid

Partial dominance

Pascal's triangle

Patent

Path diagram

Pathogen

Pattern formation

PCR

PD

Pedigree

Penetrance

Peptide

Peptide bond

Peptidyl transferase

Permissive condition

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

Pleiotropic mutation

Pleiotropy

Pluripotency

Point mutation

Poisson distribution

Poky mutation

Polar body

Polar granules

Polar mutation

Polar overdominance

Polarity

Polarity gene

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

Precancerous polyp

Predisposition

Preemptor stem

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 of meiosis

Product rule

Proflavin

Progeny testing

Prognosis

Prokaryote

Prokaryotic cell

Promoter

Pronucleus

Proofread

Proofreader genes

Prophage

Prophase

Prophylactic surgery

Proplastid

Propositus

Prostate cancer

Protease

Protein

Protein product

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
R factor

R plasmid

Radiation hybrid

RAM mutation

Random genetic drift

Random mating

Rare-cutter enzyme

Reading frame

Readthrough

Reannealing

Rec system

Receptor element

Recessive allele

Recessive gene

Recessive phenotype

Reciprocal altruism

Reciprocal cross

Recombinant

Recombinant clone

Recombinant DNA

Recon

Reduction division

Redundant DNA

Regression

Regulator element

Regulator gene

Relaxed mutant

Renal cell cancer

Renal cell carcinoma

Renner complex

Repeat sequences

Repetitive DNA

Replica plating

Replication fork

Replicon

Replisome

Reporter gene

Repressible operon

Repression

Repressor

Reproductive cells

Reproductive success

Repulsion (genetics)

Restriction digest

Restriction enzyme

Restriction enzymes

Restriction map

Retinitis pigmentosa

Retinoblastoma

Retroviral infection

Retrovirus

Reverse genetics

Reversion

RF

RFLP

RFLP mapping

Rho

Ribonucleic acid

Ribonucleotide

Ribose

Ribosomal protein

Ribosomal RNA

Ribosome

Ribosomes

Ribozyme

Risk communication

RNA

RNA editing

RNA phage

RNA polymerase

RNA replicase

RNA splicing

Robertsonian fusion

rRNA

Rule of segregation

S
S (Svedberg unit)

S-9 mix

Sanger sequence

Sanger sequencing

Sarcoma

Satellite

Satellite chromosome

Satellite DNA

Scaffold

Scanning hypothesis

Scientific method

Screening

Screening technique

Second-site mutation

Secondary oocyte

Secondary structure

Sedimentation

Segmentation (biology)

Segregation

Segregational load

Segregational petite

Selection

Selection progress

Selective medium

Selective neutrality

Selective system

Self

Self-assembly

Self-fertilization

Selfed

Selfish DNA

Sense strand

Sequence

Sequence assembly

Sequence tagged site

Sequencing

Sex chromosome

Sex chromosomes

Sex determination

Sex linkage

Sex linked

Sex reversal

Sex switch

Sex-controlled trait

Sex-influenced trait

Sex-lethal

Sex-limited trait

Sex-linked

Sex-ratio phenotype

Sexduction

Sexual selection

Sexual spore

Shotgun method

Shotgun sequencing

Shotgun technique

Shuttle vector

Siblings(sibs)

Sickle-cell disease (Sickle cell anemia)

Sigma factor

Signal hypothesis

Signal peptide

Signal peptide

Silent gene

Silent mutation

SINE

Single-gene disorder

Sister chromatids

Skew

Smooth endoplasmic reticulum

SNP

SnRNP

Sociobiology

Solenoid structure

Somatic cell

Somatic cell hybrid

Somatic cells

Somatic doubling

Somatic mutation

Somatic mutations

Somatostatin

SOS box

SOS repair

SOS response

Southern blot

Southern blotting

Spacer DNA

Speciation

Speciation (genetic algorithm)

Species

Specific-locus test

Spectral karyotype

Sperm

Spermatid

Spermatocyte

Spermatogenesis

Spermatogonium

Spermatozoon

Spermiogenesis

Spina bifida

Spindle

Spiral cleavage

Spirillum

Splice site

Spliceosome

Spontaneous mutation

Sporadic cancer

Spore

Sporophyte

Staggered cuts

Standard deviation

Statistic

Statistics

Stem cell

Stem-loop structure

Steroid receptor

Stochastic

Strain

Stringent factor

Stringent response

Structural gene

Structural genomics

Substantial equivalence

Substitution

Subvital gene

Suicide gene

Supercoil

Supercoiling

Supergene

Superinfection

Supersuppressor

Suppressive petite

Suppressor gene

Suppressor mutation

Svedberg unit

Swivelase

Sympatric speciation

Synapsis

Synaptonemal complex

Syncytial blastoderm

Syncytium

Syndrome

Synexpression

Syngeneic

Synteny

Synteny test

Synthetic medium

T
T-cell receptor

T-DNA

TACTAAC box

Tandem duplication

Target theory

Targeted mutagenesis

TATA box

Tautomeric shift

Tay–Sachs disease

Technology transfer

Telomerase

Telomere

Telophase

Temperate phage

Template strand

Teratogen

Teratogenic

Teratogens

Terminal redundancy

Terminator sequence

Tertiary structure

Test cross

Tetrad

Tetrad analysis

Tetraparental mouse

Tetraploid

Tetratype (T)

Theta structure

Thr

Three-point cross

Thymidine

Thymine

Thymine dimer

Ti plasmid

Topoisomer

Topoisomerase

Totipotency

Totipotent

Toxicogenomics

Trait (biological)

Trans

Trans conformation

Trans-acting

Transcription

Transcription factor

Transcriptome

Transducing particle

Transduction

Transfection

Transfer RNA

Transferase

Transform

Transformation

Transformer

Transgenic

Transgenic organism

Transgressive phenotype

Transient diploid

Transition

Transition mutation

Translation

Translocase (EF-G)

Translocation

Transposable element

Transposition

Transposon

Transversion

Trihybrid

Triplet

Triplet code

Triploid

Trisomic

Trisomy

Tritium

tRNA

Trp

True heritability

True speciation

Truncation selection

Tumour

Tumour virus

Turner syndrome

Twin spot

Twin study

Two-point cross

Type I and type II errors

Typological thinking

Tyr

U
Uncharacterized LOC644249 gene

Underdominance

Unequal crossover

Uninemic chromosome

Uniparental disomy

Unique DNA

Unmixed codon family

Unstable mutation

Unusual bases

Upstream and downstream (DNA)

Uptake signal sequence

Uracil

Uridine

V
V-J joining

Val

Variable region

Variance

Variate

Variegation

Vector

Viability

Virion

Viroid

Virulent phage

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