Evidence of Common Ancestry/Variation of Traits/Inheritance of Traits

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Across
  1. 3. organisms that come from parents
  2. 6. the alleles an individual has for a trait
  3. 9. Darwin's idea that all life on our planet came from one common ancestor
  4. 10. same alleles
  5. 11. genetic material used by living things
  6. 14. different alleles
  7. 16. specific sections of DNA that carry instructions
  8. 17. basic unit of structure & function in living things
  9. 18. store information and are made of tightly wound DNA
Down
  1. 1. documents the history of life
  2. 2. a group of the same species living in an area
  3. 4. tool that helps us predict the traits of offspring based on the parents
  4. 5. different versions of the same gene
  5. 7. DNA is made up of smaller building blocks called ___________
  6. 8. trait that is observed
  7. 12. changes in DNA
  8. 13. area inside of the cell where chromosomes are stored
  9. 15. process in which four unique gametes are formed from a single parent cell