Key Terms in Chapter 7
Key Terms – The Central Dogma – Mutations and Biochemical Pathways
- arginine
- auxotroph
- Beadle & Tatum
- Central Dogma
- CFTR
- chromosome rearrangement
- complete medium
- Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
- DNA repair system
- dominant negative
- double strand break
- essential gene
- gain-of-function
- genetic analysis
- genetic screen for mutations
- genetic screen
- genotype
- germline cells
- inter-genic region
- loss-of-function
- metabolic pathway
- minimal medium
- mutant screen
- Neurospora crassa
- non-homologous end joining
- null
- one-gene: one-enzyme
- phenotype
- prototroph
- recessive lethal allele
- redundancy
- rescue
- reverse transcription
- silent mutation
- somatic cells
- transcription
- translation
