PCB 4673 Genetics Review You must be familiar with the definitions and uses of these concepts and terms: Gene Locus Allele Cistron Diallelic traits vs. multiallelic traits Single locus trait vs. multilocus trait Dominance (partial and full) Epistasis Pleiotropy Restriction enzymes Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium Frameshift mutation Point mutation Basic structure of DNA and RNA (nucleotide bases, sugars, phosphates, types of base substitutions [transitions vs. transversions], etc.) Promotor site Homeobox Homologous chromosomes Allele frequencies Genotype frequencies Homozygous Heterozygous Hemizygous Allozymes Isozymes Crossing over (chiasma formation, etc.) Chromosome movements and subsequent genetic arrangements in mitosis and meiosis Intragenic recombination Linkage Map distances between genes Multigene families Pseudogenes cDNA, cpDNA, mtDNA rRNA, mRNA, tRNA Intervening sequences Introns and exons Codons (including related terms like amino acid codons, stop codons, first position, second position, third position, etc.) Transmission of organelle DNA in metazoans and vascular plants Protein structure: primary, secondary, tertiary