{"id":7991,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forward_genetics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:51","slug":"forward_genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forward_genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of discovering through random mutation, genes that lead to particular phenotypes, with a mutagen being used to accelerate this process. &nbsp;Once the mutants have been isolated with this screening method, the mutant gene can be identified molecularly and its function discovered. &nbsp;In contrast to reverse genetics, forward genetics goes from the phenotype to the gene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cell_migration\">Cell migration<\/a>, <a href=\"conditional_knockouts\">Conditional knockouts<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_genetics\">Developmental genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"genotype_and_phenotype\">Genotype and phenotype<\/a>, <a href=\"reverse_genetics\">Reverse genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"transgene\">Transgene<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of discovering through random mutation, genes that lead to particular phenotypes, with a mutagen being used to accelerate this process. &nbsp;Once the mutants have been isolated with this screening method, the mutant gene can be identified molecularly and its function discovered. &nbsp;In contrast to reverse genetics, forward genetics goes from the phenotype to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/forward_genetics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forward genetics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}