PCAT Bio: Genetics

Genetics

Gene

Allele

Genotype

Phenotype

Mendelian Genetics

Genetic Cross

Mendel's Laws

Mendel's Law of Segregation: Four Principles of Inheritance

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Mendel's Law of Dominance

Monohybrid Cross

Parental (P) Generation

Filial (F) Generation

Punnett Square

Test Cross (Back Cross)

Dihybrid Cross

Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment

Crossing Over

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Patterns

Incomplete Dominance

Codominance

Sex Determination

Sex-Linked Genes

Sex Linkage

Drosophila Melanogaster

Environmental Factors

Genetic Problems

Nondisjunction

Chromosomal Breakage

Mutations

Mutagenic Agents

Mutation Types

Point Mutation

Frameshift Mutation

Examples of Genetic Disorders

Cytoplasmic Inheritance

Plasmids

Bacterial Genome

Episomes

Replication

Genetic Variance

Transformation

Conjugation

Transduction

Virion

Recombination

Gene Regulation

Operon

Structural Genes

Operator Region

Promoter Region

Regulator Gene

Inducible Systems

Repressible Systems

Corepressor

Constitutive

Bacteriophage

Lytic Cycle

Virulent Bacteriophages

Lysogenic Cycle

Provirus