The DNA, cell division, and genetics material has a lot of unfamiliar vocabulary and more detail than we need for our purposes. The lists below are guidelines to help you sort things out, and are not to be taken as all-inclusive.

Useful terms
Not necessary
  • chromosome
  • mitosis
  • meiosis
  • independent assortment
  • crossing-over
  • gene
  • allele (dominant, recessive)
  • mutation
    • insertion
    • deletion
    • substitution
    • addition
    • chromosomal
    • silent
  • genotype
  • phenotype
  • nucleotides [ A,T,G,C, U (in RNA)]
  • double helix
  • bases
  • DNA, mRNA, tRNA
  • protein
  • amino acid
  • genepool
  • allele frequency
  • genotype frequency
  • Hardy-Weinburg
  • natural selection
  • evolution
  • polymerase
  • okazaki fragments
  • '3-5', 5'-3'
  • lagging strand, leading strand
  • adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
  • telomeres
  • helicase
  • ligase
  • topoisomerase
  • polymerase chain reaction
  • epistasis
  • heterosis
  • pleiotropy
  • phosphorylation
  • prophase
  • metaphase
  • anaphase
  • telophase
  • etc.