Encyclopedia - Genetics

We put genetics under the microscope.

actinomycete action potential Adanson, Michel adaptation adenovirus allele allosteric control Altman, Sidney amoeba Anabaena apomixis Arber, Werner arbovirus archaea Avery, Oswald (Theodore) B cell bacillus bacteria bacteriology bacteriophage

Baer, Karl Ernst, knight von Baltimore, David Bassi, Agostino Bateson, William Beadle, George Wells behaviour genetics Benzer, Seymour Berg, Paul Bergey, David Hendricks Bessey, Charles E(dwin) binomial nomenclature bioluminescence biotechnology Blakeslee, Albert Francis Boveri, Theodor Heinrich Bridges, Calvin Blackman Buchner, Hans budding bacteria Burnet, Sir (Frank) Macfarlane Calvin, Melvin

Camerarius, Rudolph (Jacob) Caspersson, Torbörn Oskar Cech, Thomas (Robert) cell centromere Ceratium Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chamberlain, Charles Joseph Charophyceae chemotaxonomy chlamydia Chlamydomonas chlorella chromosome cilium clone clostridium coccus Codium Cohn, Ferdinand (Julius)

coliform bacteria colony consanguinity Correns, Carl Erich creationism Crick, Francis (Harry Compton) cross-fertilization cryptomonad cyanobacteria cytochrome cytology cytoplasm cytoskeleton Darlington, Cyril Dean Darwin, Charles (Robert) Darwin, Erasmus Darwinism de Vries, Hugo (Marie) Delbrück, Max denitrifying bacteria

desmid dinoflagellate DNA fingerprinting Dobzhansky, Theodosius Domagk, Gerhard dominance Dubos, René (Jules) Dujardin, Félix Dulbecco, Renato East, Edward Murray Ebola Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried Embden, Gustav Georg embryology endoplasmic reticulum (ER) entamoeba epigenetics episome epistatic gene Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)

eubacteria eukaryote evolution Fairchild, David (Grandison) feedback inhibition fermentation fertilization Fisher, Sir R(onald) A(ylmer) flagellum Fleming, Sir Alexander Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Forbes, Edward Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz L(udwig) Franklin, Rosalind (Elsie) Galvani, Luigi gene gene flow gene therapy genetic code genetic drift

genetic engineering genetically modified organism (GMO) genetics genome genotype genus germ-plasm theory Giardia lamblia Goodpasture, E(rnest) W(illiam) gram stain Grew, Nehemiah Haeckel, Ernst (Heinrich Philipp August) Haemophilus Haldane, J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson) Harden, Sir Arthur Hardy-Weinberg law helioflagellate heredity Hershey, A(lfred) D(ay) Hess, Walter Rudolf

heterosis histology Holley, Robert William homology homozygote and heterozygote Human Genome Project Huxley, Sir Julian (Sorell) Huxley, T(homas) H(enry) inbreeding industrial melanism inhibition Jacob, François Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig Kölreuter, Josef Gottlieb Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery Khorana, Har Gobind klebsiella Kornberg, Arthur Krebs, Edwin (Gerhard) Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf

Löffler, Friedrich (August Johannes) lactobacillus Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, knight de Lederberg, Joshua Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van Lewis, Edward B. linkage group Linnaeus, Carolus Luria, Salvador (Edward) Lysenko, Trofim (Denisovich) lysogeny lysosome Macleod, J(ohn) J(ames) R(ickard) Mayr, Ernst (Walter) Mazia, Daniel McCarty, Maclyn McClintock, Barbara McClung, Clarence E(rwin) meiosis membrane

Mendel, Gregor (Johann) meningococcus Meselson, Matthew Stanley Metchnikoff, Élie microbiology micrococcus microtubule Miescher, Johann Friedrich mitosis molecular biology Monod, Jacques (Lucien) Morgan, Thomas Hunt morphology Muller, Hermann Joseph mutagen mutation mycobacterium mycology mycoplasma myxovirus

Nathans, Daniel natural selection Needham, John Turberville Nirenberg, Marshall Warren nitrifying bacteria nostoc nucleus Ochoa, Severo oncogene operon Painter, Theophilus Shickel papillomavirus parallel evolution paramecium Pasteurella pedigree phenotype phylogenetic tree phylogeny physiology

phytoflagellate phytoplankton picornavirus plant virus plasmid plasmodium ploidy pneumococcus polymorphism polyoma virus Pontecorvo, Guido poxvirus prion prokaryote protist protozoan pseudomonad Punnett, Reginald Crundall pure culture Ray, John

recessiveness recombinant DNA technology recombination Redi, Francesco reovirus repression reproduction retrovirus reverse transcriptase rhabdovirus rhinovirus ribosome rickettsia Sager, Ruth salmonella Sanger, Frederick sargassum Schleiden, Mathias Jacob Schwann, Theodor selection

self-fertilization sheathed bacteria shigella Shull, George Harrison Smith, Hamilton O(thanel) speciation species spirillum spirochete Stahl, Franklin W(illiam) staphylococcus Stebbins, G(eorge) Ledyard stem cell streptococcus streptomyces Sturtevant, Alfred (Henry) sulfur bacteria Sutton, Walter S(tanborough) Swammerdam, Jan synapse

T cell Tatum, Edward L(awrie) testcross Thimann, Kenneth V(ivian) togavirus tricarboxylic acid cycle trichomonad Tschermak von Seysenegg, Erich vacuole variation Vaucheria Vavilov, Nikolay (Ivanovich) vibrio virion viroid virology virus Waksman, Selman (Abraham) Wallace, Alfred Russel Warburg, Otto (Heinrich)

Watson, James D(ewey) Wilkins, Maurice (Hugh Frederick) Wilson, Edmund B(eecher) Wilson, Edward O(sborne) Wright, Sewall Yanofsky, Charles Zinder, Norton (David)