| AO | Acridine Orange |
| BER | Base Excision Repair |
| Blm | Bloom helicase |
| CASA | Computer-Assisted Semen Analysis |
| CDS | Coding sequence |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| Cas9 | CRISPR-associated protein 9 |
| DSB | Double-stranded break |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| HE | Hematoxylin and eosin |
| HR | Homologous recombination |
| MMR | Mismatch repair |
| NER | Nucleotide excision repair |
| NHEJ | Non-homologous end-joining |
| NMD | Nonsense-mediated decay |
| PBS | Phosphate-buffered saline |
| PTU | 1-phenyl 2-thiourea |
| UNG/UDG | Uracil-DNA glycosylase |
| ZGA | Zygotic genome activation |