Genetics

3. A type of reproduction in which male reproductive cell and a female reproductive cell combine to form offspring with genetic material from both cells.
6. One gene pair containing different alleles.
7. The physical structure in a cell that contains the cell's genetic material.
9. An alternate form of a gene for a specific trait or gene product.
10. The genetic makeup of an organism; all the genes that an organism has.
13. A branch of biology that deals with heredity and variation of organisms.
14. An offspring of genetically different parents especially of different races, breeds, varieties, or species.

1. Any change made to DNA.
2. The observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
4. A term used in that describes the allele that determines the phenotype of an individual organism when two different copies are present.
5. One gene pair containing identical alleles.
6. The passing of genes from parents to offspring; the genes are expressed in the traits of their offspring
8. A term that describes an allele that is not expressed when combined with a dominant form of a gene.
11. A cell formed by the union of two gametes.
12. The process by which a single organism produces offspring that have the same genetic material.