KEY TERMS

acentric chromosome

acentric fragment

adjacent-1 segregation

allopolyploid

alternate segregation

amphidiploid

anaphase bridge

aneuploid

autopolyploid

balanced rearrangement

balancer

bivalents

chromosome mutation

deletion

deletion loop

deletion mapping

dicentric bridge

dicentric chromosome

disomic

dosage compensation

Down syndrome

duplication

embryoid

euploid

gene balance

gene-dosage effect

genetic load

hexaploid

homeologous chromosomes

insertional duplication

intragenic deletion

inversion

inversion heterozygote

inversion loop

Klinefelter syndrome

monoploid

monosomic

multigenic deletion

nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR)

nondisjunction

nullisomic

paracentric inversion

parthenogenesis

pentaploid

pericentric inversion

polyploid

polytene chromosome

position-effect variegation

pseudodominance

pseudolinkage

rearrangement

segmental duplication

semisterility (half-sterility)

tandem duplication

tetraploid

translocation

triploid

trisomic

trivalent

Turner syndrome

unbalanced rearrangement

univalent