Crop Modification and Selective Breeding
Across
- 2. To breed a population of animals or plants to serve the purposes of human beings and to need and accept human care
- 4. Containing a gene that has been transferred from one organism to another.
- 7. The science of breeding and caring for farm animals
- 10. An organism or crop whose characteristics have been deliberately modified by manipulating its genetic material.
Down
- 1. Process by which humans control the breeding of plants or animals in order to exhibit or eliminate a particular characteristic
- 3. The science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products.
- 5. The intentional breeding of plants and animals to produce specific, desirable traits
- 6. The naturally occurring mutations in genes.
- 8. Any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
- 9. A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring.