Genetics And Heredity Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 9. Breeding process humans have used for a long time to reinforce desired traits into a particular organism. ex: dog breeds
  2. 11. Traits that always appear in the phenotype. They are represented by capital letters
  3. 12. Traits that are covered up by dominant traits. It takes two alleles to show this type of trait.
  4. 13. The physical expression of genes in an organism.
  5. 14. Type of inheritance where there is more than one dominant trait and both appear in the phenotype
  6. 17. The set of genes carried by an organism.
  7. 20. Thick bundles of DNA found in the nucleus of a cell. A human cell has 46.
Down
  1. 1. Mutation A naturally occuring mistake in genetic code. Can result in a neutral, beneficial or harmful condition.
  2. 2. Trait Type of trait that is passed from parents to offspring in genes.
  3. 3. The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring
  4. 4. Characteristic of an organism
  5. 5. Different forms of a gene
  6. 6. Dominance type of inheritance where the dominant trait is not completely dominant over the recessive. The result is blend of traits.
  7. 7. Genetic material of all living things. Contains four nitrogen based pairs (Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine)
  8. 8. Genotype with two different alleles ex. Aa, Ww
  9. 10. Square tool to predict the probability of traits being passed from parents to offspring
  10. 15. Trait Type of trait that is caused by external factors from the environment an organism lives in.
  11. 16. Segment of DNA that codes for a particular trait
  12. 17. genetically modified organism
  13. 18. Genotype with two of the same alleles ex. AA, aa
  14. 19. The study of how genes interact