Ch 4 Prenatal Development
Across
- 2. The units within your chromosomes that determine your inherited traits.
- 3. The weaker gene that must come in pairs in order to be expressed.
- 7. This is the second and most crucial stage of fetal development.
- 10. Where conception takes place.
- 13. The tube that connects the baby to the placenta. This carries the oxygen and nutrients to the baby.
- 15. A fluid filled sac that protects the growing fetus while in utero.
- 18. This is the third and final stage of fetal development. It lasts the longest.
- 19. This is the first stage in fetal development.
Down
- 1. The process of the sperm fertilizing the ovum.
- 4. Tiny threadlike structures of every cell that make up our DNA. You receive all 46 at conception.
- 5. The complete blueprint for the creation of a person.
- 6. A problem or abnormality that a baby is born with.
- 8. The key to supplying nutrients and oxygen to the baby in utero.
- 9. The pear shaped organ in a woman's body where the baby grows and develops during pregnancy.
- 11. The loss of a baby after 20 weeks.
- 12. The egg cell released from a woman's ovaries every 28 days.
- 14. The strong gene that will always be expressed.
- 16. The loss of a baby at 20 weeks or less.
- 17. The inability to have children.