Outline of genetics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to genetics:

Genetics – science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. Genetics deals with the molecular structure and function of genes, and gene behavior in context of a cell or organism (e.g. dominance and epigenetics),  patterns of inheritance from parent to offspring, and  gene distribution, variation and change in populations.

Essence of genetics

 * Chromosome
 * DNA
 * Genetic variation
 * Heredity

Branches of genetics

 * Behavioural genetics
 * Classical genetics
 * Developmental genetics
 * Conservation genetics
 * Ecological genetics
 * Evolutionary genetics
 * Genetic engineering
 * Metagenics
 * Genetics of intelligence
 * Genomics
 * Human genetics
 * Human evolutionary genetics
 * Human mitochondrial genetics
 * Medical genetics
 * Microbial genetics
 * Molecular genetics
 * Population genetics
 * Archaeogenetics
 * Archaeogenetics of the Near East
 * Psychiatric genetics
 * Quantitative genetics

Multi-disciplinary fields that include genetics

 * Evolutionary anthropology

History of genetics

 * Main article: History of genetics


 * Ancient Concepts of Heredity
 * History of evolutionary thought
 * History of plant systematics
 * Experiments on Plant Hybridization
 * History of genomics
 * Neanderthal genome project

General genetics concepts

 * adenine
 * adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA)
 * adenovirus
 * Alagille syndrome
 * allele
 * amino acids
 * animal model
 * antibody
 * antisense
 * apoptosis
 * ataxia-telangiectasia
 * Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS)
 * autosomal dominant
 * autosome
 * bacteria
 * bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)
 * base pair
 * birth defect
 * bone marrow transplantation
 * BRCA1/BRCA2
 * cancer
 * candidate gene
 * carcinoma
 * carrier
 * cDNA library
 * cell
 * centimorgan
 * centromere
 * chromosome
 * Chromosomal translocation
 * cloning
 * codon
 * Congenital disorder
 * contig
 * craniosynostosis
 * cystic fibrosis
 * cytogenetic map
 * cytosine
 * deletion
 * deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
 * diabetes mellitus
 * diploid
 * DNA replication
 * DNA sequencing
 * dominant
 * double helix
 * duplication
 * electrophoresis
 * Ellisvan Creveld syndrome
 * enzyme
 * exon
 * familial Mediterranean fever
 * fibroblasts
 * fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
 * Fragile X syndrome
 * gene
 * gene amplification
 * gene expression
 * gene library
 * gene mapping
 * gene pool
 * gene therapy
 * gene transfer
 * genetic code
 * ATGC
 * genetic counseling
 * genetic linkage
 * genetic map
 * genetic marker
 * genetic screening
 * genome
 * genotype
 * germ line
 * guanine
 * haploid
 * haploinsufficiency
 * hematopoietic stem cell
 * hemophilia
 * heterozygous
 * highly conserved sequence
 * Hirschsprung's disease
 * holoprosencephaly
 * homologous recombination
 * homozygous
 * human artificial chromosome (HAC)
 * Human Genome Project
 * human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
 * acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
 * Huntington's disease
 * hybridization
 * immunotherapy
 * in situ hybridization
 * inherited
 * insertion
 * intellectual property rights
 * intron
 * Jurassic Park (genetics of)
 * karyotype
 * knockout
 * leukemia
 * locus
 * LOD score
 * lymphocyte
 * malformation
 * Gene mapping
 * marker
 * melanoma
 * Mendel, Johann (Gregor)
 * Mendelian inheritance
 * messenger RNA
 * mRNA
 * metaphase
 * microarray technology
 * microsatellite
 * mitochondrial DNA
 * monosomy
 * mouse model
 * multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 1
 * MEN1)
 * mutation
 * neurofibromatosis
 * Niemann-Pick disease, type C (NPC)
 * non-coding DNA
 * non-directiveness
 * nonsense mutation
 * Northern blot
 * nucleotide
 * nucleus
 * oligo
 * oncogene
 * oncovirus
 * p53
 * Parkinson's disease
 * Particulate inheritance theory
 * patent
 * pedigree
 * peptide
 * phenotype
 * physical map
 * polydactyly
 * polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
 * polymorphism
 * positional cloning
 * primary immunodeficiency
 * primer
 * probe
 * promoter
 * pronucleus
 * prostate cancer
 * protease
 * protein
 * pseudogene
 * recessive
 * recombinant DNA
 * repressor
 * restriction enzymes
 * restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)
 * retrovirus
 * ribonucleic acid (RNA)
 * ribosome
 * risk communication
 * sequence-tagged site (STS)
 * severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
 * sex chromosome
 * sex-linked
 * shotgun sequencing
 * sickle cell disease
 * single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
 * somatic cells
 * Southern blot
 * spectral karyotype (SKY)
 * substitution
 * suicide gene
 * syndrome
 * technology transfer
 * thymine
 * transgenic
 * trisomy
 * tumor suppressor gene
 * uracil
 * vector
 * Western blot
 * Wolfram syndrome
 * yeast artificial chromosome (YAC)

Classical geneticists

 * Gregor Mendel
 * Hugo de Vries
 * William Bateson
 * Thomas Hunt Morgan
 * Alfred Sturtevant
 * Ronald Fisher
 * Frederick Griffith
 * Jean Brachet
 * Edward Lawrie Tatum
 * George Wells Beadle

DNA era geneticists

 * Oswald Theodore Avery
 * Colin McLeod
 * Erwin Chargaff
 * Barbara McClintock
 * James Watson
 * Francis Crick

Genomics era geneticists

 * Francis Collins
 * Walter Fiers
 * Eric Lander
 * Kary Banks Mullis
 * Lap-Chee Tsui
 * Frederick Sanger

Genetics-related organizations

 * List of genetics research organizations