Unit 6: Genetics Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. model for predicting all possible genotypes resulting from a cross, or mating
  2. 3. cross or mating between organisms that involves two pair of contrasting traits
  3. 6. alleles will both be completely expressed
  4. 8. cross or mating between organisms that involves only one pair of contrasting traits
  5. 11. is expressed as a phenotype only when two copies are present
  6. 13. neither allele is completely dominant nor completely recessive
  7. 14. collection of all of an organism’s physical characteristics
  8. 16. different traits can segregate independently during the formation of gametes
  9. 17. the study of heredity (biological inheritance patterns)
Down
  1. 1. traits controlled by two or more genes
  2. 4. Shows the complete diploid set of chromosomes grouped together in pairs, arranged in order of decreasing size
  3. 5. two different alleles at the same location of homologous chromosomes
  4. 7. an alternative form of a gene
  5. 9. is expressed as a phenotype when at least one allele is dominant
  6. 10. collection of all of an organism’s genetic information that codes for traits
  7. 12. specific region of DNA that codes for a particular protein
  8. 15. two of the same alleles at the same location of homologous chromosomes