Genetics and Natural Selection Revision
Across
- 2. An individual born with XY chromosomes
- 5. Physiological changes that allow the organism's cells to perform special functions at a more optimum level are known as a ____________ adaptation
- 6. Another name for the modern horse
- 10. The term used to describe two different alleles
- 12. A section of DNA
- 14. The study of characteristics which are inherited
- 15. Physical feature of an organism that allows the organism to better survive is known as a ____________ adaptation
- 16. The physical characteristic/s of an individual based on their genotype
- 17. The allele that masks the effect of the recessive allele
- 18. The Father of Genetics was scientist Gregor ________
Down
- 1. An individual born with XX chromosomes
- 3. A method used to commonly determine an individual's genotype and phenotype is known as ___________ squares
- 4. The term used to describe two of the same alleles
- 7. An alternative form of a gene
- 8. Any difference between cells, individual organisms, or groups of organisms of any species
- 9. The allele that gets masked by the dominant allele
- 11. The genetic constitution of an individual organism represented by alleles
- 13. The types of pressures that act on a given population