List of genetics-related topics

This is a list of terms related to genetics.

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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
 * Assembly
 * Assortative mating
 * Asymptomatic carrier
 * 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 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
 * Bottleneck
 * 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
 * Colinearity
 * Colonoscopy
 * Colony
 * Common ancestry
 * Comparative genomics
 * Compartment
 * Competence factor
 * Competent
 * Complementarity
 * Complementary DNA
 * Complementation
 * Complementation test
 * Complete linkage
 * Complex trait
 * Component of fitness
 * Composite transposon
 * Concordance
 * Conditional mutation
 * Confidence limits
 * Confidentiality
 * Congenital
 * Conjugation
 * Conjugation tube
 * Consanguineous
 * Consanguinity
 * Consensus sequence
 * Conservative change
 * Conserved sequence
 * Constant region
 * Constitutive
 * Contig
 * Contig map
 * Contig maps
 * Contiguous genes
 * Continuous variation
 * Controlling element
 * Copper fist
 * Copy-choice model
 * Corepressor
 * Correction
 * 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
 * Discrete generations
 * Disease
 * Disruptive selection
 * Distribution
 * DMD
 * DNA
 * DNA amplification
 * 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
 * DOE
 * Domain
 * Dominance variance
 * Dominant
 * Dominant allele
 * Dominant phenotype
 * Dosage compensation
 * Dose
 * Dot blotting
 * Double crossover
 * Double digest
 * Double helix
 * Double infection
 * Double reduction
 * Doublesex
 * Down syndrome
 * Downstream
 * Draft sequence
 * Drift
 * 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
 * Experimental design
 * Expressed gene
 * Expression vector
 * Expressivity

F

 * F factor
 * F' factor
 * F plus cell
 * F- cell
 * F-duction
 * F-pili
 * F1 generation
 * F2 generation
 * Factorial
 * Familial cancer
 * Familial trait
 * Family selection
 * Fanconi's anemia
 * Fate map
 * Fecundity selection
 * Feedback inhibition
 * Fibroblasts
 * Filial generation
 * Filter enrichment
 * Fimbriae
 * 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
 * Gametic selection
 * Gametophyte
 * Gastrulation
 * GC-rich area
 * Gel electrophoresis
 * Gene
 * Gene amplification
 * Gene chip technology
 * Gene cloning
 * Gene complex
 * Gene conversion
 * Gene dose
 * 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 pair
 * Gene pool
 * Gene prediction
 * Gene product
 * Gene regulatory network
 * Gene testing
 * Gene therapy
 * Gene transfer
 * Genetic algorithm
 * Genetic architecture
 * Genetic code
 * Genetic counseling
 * Genetic deletion
 * Genetic determinism
 * Genetic disorder
 * Genetic dissection
 * Genetic engineering
 * 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 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
 * Glu
 * 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
 * Heterogeneity
 * Heterokaryon
 * Heterokaryon test
 * Heteroplasmon
 * Heteroplasmy
 * Heterothallic
 * Heterothallic fungus
 * Heterotroph
 * Heterozygosity
 * Heterozygote
 * Heterozygous
 * Heterozygous DNA
 * Hexaploid
 * Hfr
 * HGP
 * HHMI
 * Himalayan
 * 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 disease
 * Huntington's disease
 * Hybrid
 * Hybrid DNA
 * Hybrid dysgenesis
 * Hybrid plasmid
 * Hybrid zone
 * Hybridization
 * Hybridize
 * 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
 * Ig
 * Ile
 * Imago
 * Immune system
 * immunity
 * Immunoglobulin (Ig)
 * Immunoglobulin gene
 * Immunohistochemistry
 * Immunotherapy
 * Imprinting
 * In situ
 * In vitro
 * In vitro mutagenesis
 * In vivo
 * Inbreeding
 * Incestuous
 * Inclusive fitness
 * Incomplete dominance
 * Inducer
 * Inducible operon
 * Induction
 * Industrial melanism
 * Infectious transfer
 * Informatics
 * Informed consent
 * Inherit
 * Inherited
 * Initiation codon
 * Initiation complex
 * 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
 * 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
 * Localize
 * 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
 * Mullerian 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
 * Octad
 * Okazaki fragment
 * Oligo
 * Oligogenic
 * Oligonucleotide
 * Oncogene
 * Oncogenes
 * Oncovirus
 * Oocyte
 * Oogenesis
 * Oogonia
 * Opal codon
 * Open reading frame
 * Operator
 * 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
 * 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
 * Plate
 * Pleiotropic mutation
 * Pleiotropy
 * Pluripotency
 * Point mutation
 * Poisson distribution
 * Poky mutation
 * Polar body
 * Polar granules
 * Polar mutation
 * 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 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
 * Proteome
 * Proteomics
 * Proteus syndrome
 * Proto-oncogene
 * Protoplast
 * Prototroph
 * Provirus
 * Pseudoallele
 * Pseudoautosomal region
 * Pseudodominance
 * Pseudogene
 * Public policy
 * Puff
 * 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
 * Recombination
 * 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
 * Resolving power
 * 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
 * Robertsonian fusion
 * rRNA
 * Rule of segregation

S

 * S (Svedberg unit)
 * S-9 mix
 * Sanger sequence
 * Sanger sequencing
 * SAR
 * Sarcoma
 * Satellite
 * Satellite chromosome
 * Satellite DNA
 * Scaffold
 * Scanning hypothesis
 * Scientific method
 * Screening
 * Screening technique
 * Second-site mutation
 * Secondary oocyte
 * Secondary structure
 * Sector
 * 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 sequence
 * 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
 * Species
 * Specific-locus test
 * Spectral karyotype
 * Sperm
 * Spermatid
 * Spermatocyte
 * Spermatogenesis
 * Spermatogonium
 * Spermatozoon
 * Spermiogenesis
 * Spina bifida
 * Spindle
 * Spiral cleavage
 * Spirillum
 * Splice site
 * Spliceosome
 * Splicing
 * Spontaneous mutation
 * Sporadic cancer
 * Spore
 * Sporophyte
 * Stacking
 * 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
 * Sum rule
 * 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
 * Template strand
 * Teratogen
 * Teratogenic
 * Teratogens
 * Terminal redundancy
 * Terminator sequence
 * Tertiary structure
 * Test cross
 * Tester
 * 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
 * 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

 * Underdominance
 * Unequal crossover
 * Uninemic chromosome
 * Uniparental disomy
 * Unique DNA
 * Unmixed codon family
 * Unstable mutation
 * Unusual bases
 * Upstream
 * Uracil
 * URF
 * Uridine

V

 * V-J joining
 * Val
 * Variable
 * Variable region
 * Variance
 * Variant
 * Variate
 * Variation
 * 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

Z

 * Z-DNA
 * Zinc finger
 * Zinc-finger protein
 * Zygote