Genetics is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. Humans began applying knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. In modern research, genetics provides important tools in the investigation of the function of a particular gene, e.g. analysis of genetic interactions. Within organisms, genetic information generally is carried in chromosomes, where it is represented in the chemical structure of particular DNA molecules.

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Genetic algorithms Applied genetics C Classical genetics D DNA Genetic disorders

E Epigenetics Genetics experiments G Genes Geneticists Genomics M Molecular genetics

M cont. Mutation N Nucleotides P Phylogenetics Population genetics R RNA S Supergenes

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List of genetics-related topics Genetics A Adam's Curse Aneuploidy Asymptomatic carrier Atavism Autosome B Barr body Behavioural genetics Biological inheritance Bookmarking C Centromere Chromosomal inversion Chromosomal translocation Chromosome Clone (genetics) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Consanguinity Cytogenetics D DNA Dosage compensation Dyad symmetry E Ecological genetics Epistasis G Galton Laboratory

G cont. Gene Gene complex Genetic architecture Genetic determinism Genetic disorder Genetic material Genetic recombination Genetics of humans Genome Genome screen Genotype-phenotype distinction H Hayflick limit Heritability Heterogamy Histone History of genetics Homologous chromosome Horizontal gene transfer Human genetics I Identity by type K Karyotype L List of chromosomal translocations List of genetics research organizations Lyon hypothesis M Molecular genetics Mosaic (genetics)

M cont. Mutation N Non-Mendelian inheritance Nondisjunction P Philadelphia chromosome Pleiotropy Polytene chromosome Prion Pseudogene Q Quantitative genetics Quantitative trait locus R Recombinant Recombinant frequency Robertsonian translocation S Segregation distortion Silent gene Somatic cell nuclear transfer Supergene T Transformation (genetics) Twin study U Uniparental disomy W Weismann barrier X X chromosome XYY Y Y chromosome Y-chromosomal Aaron Z Z-DNA