Important Terms from Semester 2 General Biology Evolution Population Natural Selection Vestigial Structure Homologous Structure Missense Mutation Nonsense Mutation Silent Mutation Transcription Translation mRNA tRNA rRNA Central Dogma Meiosis RNA Polymerase Codon Gene Allele Dominant Recessive Genotype Phenotype Homozygous Heterozygous Electrophoresis Fertilization Differentiation Zygote Embryo Fetus Stem Cell Somatic Gamete Haploid Diploid Homologous Chromosomes Tetrad Binary Fission Nondisjunction Aneuploidy Monosomy Trisomy Oogenesis Spermatogenesis Prokaryote Eukaryote Karyotype Cell Cycle Interphase Mitosis Cytokinesis Cancer Protein Amino Acid Enzyme Nucleic Acid Nucleotide Pyrimidine Purine Helicase DNA Polymerase Replication Fork Semi-Conservative