Creatures Without Color (crossword)

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Across
  1. 2. An animals child or children.
  2. 4. To get a quality, characteristic genetically from ones parents or ancestors
  3. 5. pigmentation of the skin
  4. 10. the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
  5. 12. A disease that involves the growth of abnormal cells in your skin tissues.
  6. 13. Light from the sun
  7. 16. blistering and peeling of the skin caused by overexposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
  8. 18. only one out of many thousands of individuals might have this trait
  9. 19. radiation with shorter wave lengths than visible light
Down
  1. 1. A large type of ape
  2. 3. Pigment genes have different versions
  3. 6. A group of living organisms
  4. 7. a dark brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye in people and animals.
  5. 8. The natural coloring matter of animal or plant tissue
  6. 9. state of being able to see.
  7. 11. the state of being exposed to contact with something.
  8. 14. the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another.
  9. 15. Cold blooded animal
  10. 17. A chart that can determine the chances of offspring having a particular trait.
  11. 20. condition in which the body can’t properly produce colored chemical compounds called pigments.