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  • Ecological genetics - The study of gene frequencies in ecology
  • Effective population size - Number of individuals in a population who contribute offspring to the next generation
  • Effector - Molecule involved in gene expression
  • Endogenous retrovirus - A section of DNA originating from an RNA virus
  • Enhancer - Molecule that promotes transcription
  • Environmental variance - Any non-genetic source of phenotypic variation
  • Epigenesis - The genetics of embryology and developmental biology
  • Epigenetics - Inheritance by mechanisms other than the genome sequence
  • Episome - Autonomously replicating plasmid capable of integrating into host chromosome
  • Epistatis - Gene interaction where one gene masks the expression of another, non-allelic gene
  • Essential gene - Gene in which mutations can lead to fatal phenotypes
  • Euchromatin - Chromatin that is condensed during cell division
  • Euploidy - Condition of having one or more complete set of chromosomes (opposite of aneuploidy)
  • Exon - The region of the gene or mRNA that specifies amino acid sequence


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