bio crossword
Across
- 3. Law of independent assortment states that factors controlling different characteristics are _________ independently
- 4. In __________phase, the DNA is replicated in the interphase
- 5. _________ interacts with DNA promoters during gene regulators
- 9. ______ are the ultimate source of new genetic material (alleles) in a species
- 11. What plant did Mendel use in his experiments
- 12. __________ is the development of haploid cells into gametes
- 15. Dihybrid cross occurs between _______ characteristics
- 16. Father of Genetics
- 17. _____ is when one plant fertilizes another plant of the same species
- 19. Most __________ cells divide by binary fission
- 20. Haploid gametes fuse, forming a diploid zygote growing into a ______
- 22. Mendel hand-pollinated the pea plants to create _______
- 26. Mendel first experimented with which characteristic?
- 27. Genetics is the science of ________
- 30. 2 factors controlling a given characteristic, where one dominates the other, and these separate and go to different gametes
- 33. What does crossing over cause _________ variation
- 34. Fused haploid gametes form _______
- 35. Mature sperm cells after spermatogenesis gain the ability to _____
- 37. Pea plants are _______ pollinating
- 38. Cells produced by meiosis are ______
Down
- 1. Pollen has tiny grains which are the ________ gamete
- 2. The region where sister chromatids are joined to form a chromosome
- 4. Centrioles form ______ fibers in prophase
- 6. Out of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, 22 are _______
- 7. Pollination occurs when the pollen is transferred to the______, which is the female gamete
- 8. __________ is unique to the phases of meiosis in prophase 1
- 10. __________ occurs differently after mitosis in plants and animal cells
- 13. During F1 of the dihybrid cross all the offsprings had the ____ characteristics but F2 showed all the other possibilities
- 14. Codominance occurs when both alleles are equally expressed in the phenotype of the ______
- 15. Mutation can occur during _________ in gene expression
- 18. The first generation that is cross-pollinated
- 21. Different versions of the same characteristic that are inherited to make up the genotype
- 23. _______ theory was popular during Mendel's time
- 24. ________ traits are controlled by more than one gene, each with 2 or more alleles
- 25. __________ chromosomes separate during meiosis
- 28. Pea plants have _____ visible characteristic
- 29. If the zygote is a diploid cell, the gametes are ______
- 31. ____ are the second set of offspring by self-pollination of F1
- 32. Oogenesis starts in ______
- 36. Pollination is the fertilization in ____________