activation domain

Barr body

barrier insulator

chromatin remodeling

co-activator

constitutive heterochromatin

corepressor

CpG island

dosage compensation

enhanceosome

enhancer

enhancer-blocking insulator

epigenetic inheritance

epigenetic mark

euchromatin

genomic imprinting

hemimethylation

hemimethylated DNA

heterochromatin

histone code

histone deacetylase (HDAC)

histone modification

histone variant

histone tail

hyperacetylation

hypoacetylation

maternal imprinting

mediator complex

paternal imprinting

position-effect variegation (PEV)

post-transcriptional gene silencing

post-translational modification (PTM)

promoter-proximal element

reporter gene

synergistic effect

transcriptional gene silencing

upstream activation sequence (UAS)