Chapter 18 Key Terms

• p. 402: mutation, recombination, point mutations, mutagens
  
• p. 403: transposition, chromosomal rearrangement, free radical, ionizing radiation, double-strand break, pyrimidine dimer
  
• p. 404: xeroderma pigmentosum, isomers
  
• p. 405: slipped mispairing, deletion, frameshift mutations
  
• p. 406: gametes (germline cells), somatic cells, somatic mutations, translocations
  
• p. 407: inversions, aneuploidy, polyploidy, tumor, metastasis, sarcomas, carcinomas
  
• p. 408: carcinogens, mutagens
  
• p. 410: Rous avian sarcoma virus (RSV), retrovirus, oncogene hypothesis
  
• p. 411: tryosine kinases, epidermal growth factor
  
• p. 412: transfection, oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes
  
• p. 417: genetic recombination, gene transfer
  
• p. 419: reciprocal recombination, chromosomal assortment, plasmids, transposons
  
• p. 420: reciprocal exchange, recognition site, pilus, conjugation bridge
  
• p. 421: rolling-circle replication, conjugation
  
• p. 422: transposase, insertion inactivation, gene mobilization, resistance transfer factors
  
• p. 423: mismatch pairs
  
• p. 424: gene conversion, unequal crossing over
  
• p. 425: satellite DNA
  
• p. 426: tandem clusters, nucleolar organizer regions, multigene families, pseudogenes, dispersed pseudogenes
  
• p. 428: single-copy genes