Chapter 18
Epigenetics, Extranuclear Inheritance, and Linkage
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Parts
- 1What epigenetics is5 min
- 2Genomic imprinting4 min
- 3X-chromosome inactivation5 min
- 4How diet and chemicals cause epigenetic change4 min
- 5Organelle genomes and maternal inheritance5 min
- 6Linked genes and crossing over4 min
- 7Mapping genes with recombination3 min
Key terms
- epigenetics
- epimutation
- epigenetic inheritance
- genomic imprinting
- X-chromosome inactivation
- Barr body
- dosage compensation
- X inactivation center
- Xist
- extranuclear inheritance
- mitochondrial genome
- chloroplast genome
- maternal inheritance
- reciprocal cross
- paternal inheritance
- biparental inheritance
- linkage
- linkage group
- nonrecombinant
- recombinant
- genetic mapping
- genetic map
- recombination frequency
- map unit