Genetics and Heredity

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Across
  1. 6. The process by which the genome's DNA is copied in cells.
  2. 8. The process by which a cell makes an RNA copy of a piece of DNA.
  3. 9. Having different alleles for a particular trait.
  4. 10. A molecule that is present in the majority of living organisms and viruses.
  5. 11. A small RNA molecule that plays a key role in protein synthesis.
  6. 13. Threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell.
  7. 15. Made up of chromosome pairs of approximately the same length, centromere position, and staining pattern, for genes with the same corresponding loci.
  8. 16. A biological catalyst and is almost always a protein.
Down
  1. 1. Certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
  2. 2. One of two or more versions of a genetic sequence at a particular region on a chromosome.
  3. 3. The process by which a cell makes proteins using the genetic information carried in messenger RNA (mRNA).
  4. 4. The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child.
  5. 5. The molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism.
  6. 7. The process in which cells make proteins.
  7. 12. Having inherited the same versions (alleles) of a genomic marker from each biological parent.
  8. 14. Large complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body.