Biology Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 2. Collection of all an organism's genetic information that codes for traits
  2. 4. Study of the hereditary pattern and variation of organisms.
  3. 6. Collection of all an organism's physical characteristics
  4. 7. Mating between two individuals with two alleles at one genetic locus of interest
  5. 12. A distinguishing quality or characteristic typically one belonging to a person.
  6. 13. Specific region of DNA that codes for a particular protein
  7. 14. Mendel's second law stating that allele pairs separate from one another from gamete formation
  8. 16. Cross between two different lines that differ in two observe traits
  9. 20. Allele that is not expressed unless two copies are present in organism's genotype
  10. 22. Exchange of chromosome segments between homologous chromosomes during meiosis one
Down
  1. 1. Mendel's law
  2. 3. Cross between an organism with an unknown genotype and an organism with a recessive phenotype
  3. 5. Likelihood that a particular event will happen
  4. 8. The model for predicting all possible genotypes resulting from a cross or mating
  5. 9. Allele that is expressed when two different alleles are present in an organism's genotype
  6. 10. Tendency for genes located close together on the same chromosome to be inherited together
  7. 11. Characteristic of having two different alleles that appear at the same locus of sister chromatids
  8. 15. Any of the alternative forms of a gene that occurs at a specific place on a chromosome
  9. 17. Mating of two organisms
  10. 18. Type of organism whose ancestors are genetically uniform.
  11. 19. Characteristic of having two of the same alleles at the same locus of sister chromatids
  12. 21. All of an organisms genetic material