Key Terms in Chapter 1
The following video, Genetics & Cell Division Keyword Definitions | Genetics | Biology, by FuseSchool – Global Education (2016) summarizes some key terms and definitions commonly used in genetics.
Key Terms – Mendel’s First Law and Meiosis
- alleles
- Anaphase I
- Anaphase II
- bivalent
- blending inheritance
- chiasma / chiasmata
- classical genetics
- crossing over
- diakinesis
- diplotene
- DNA cloning
- dominant
- equational
- gametes
- genotype
- Gregor Mendel
- interkinesis
- leptotene
- locus
- meiocytes
- Meiosis I
- Meiosis II
- Mendel’s First Law
- Metaphase I
- Metaphase II
- molecular genetics
- monohybrid cross
- pachytene
- pair up
- particulate inheritance
- phenotype
- polar bodies
- Prophase II
- Punnett square
- recessive
- reductional
- synapse
- synaptonemal complex
- Telophase I
- Telophase II
- test cross
- tester
- The Law of Equal Segregation
- true-breeding lines
- zygotene
Reference
FuseSchool – Global Education. (2016, September 12). Genetics & cell division keyword definitions | genetics | biology | FuseSchool [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQAMpLxo5k&feature=youtu.be.
