6.3 Mendel and Heredity
Across
- 3. where Mendel was ordained in.
- 5. the alleles that suppress a trait are __________ traits.
- 8. Mendel studied seven different pea traits, including flower color and pea
- 11. Mendel was known as the ________ of genetics.
- 16. Organisms inherit two copies of each gene, one from each parent. Only one copy of a gene goes into an organism’s gametes. The two copies of a gene separate—or segregate—during gamete formation.
- 17. the first law of inheritance.
- 18. the study of biological inheritance patterns and variation in organisms.
- 19. original name until 1843.
Down
- 1. Mendel’s wife
- 2. every gene is located at a specific spot on a pair of homologous chromosomes, known as _______.
- 4. where Mendel lived and died.
- 6. the study of genetics started in the 1800s with an Austrian monk.
- 7. a gene is a segment of ____ that instructs a cell on how to produce a certain protein.
- 9. He recognized that there are separate units of inheritance that come from each parent.
- 10. Mendel observed patterns in the first and second _______ of his crosses.
- 12. If a line of plants self-pollinates for long enough, the plants become genetically uniform, or
- 13. are characteristics* that are inherited, such as eye color, leaf shape, or tail length.
- 14. the mating of two organisms
- 15. Mendel used ______ to fertilize selected pea plants.