Genetics Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. characteristics passed from a male and female parent to their offspring through their genes (examples: dimples, eye color, hair color, etc.)
  2. 6. traits (behaviors) characteristics that one learns as opposed to what is done naturally(examples: walking, talking, musical ability, etc.)
  3. 8. the study of heredity, or how the characteristics of living things are transmitted from one generation to the next
  4. 9. a segment of DNA which occupies a particular place on a chromosome; it is the basic unit of heredity
Down
  1. 1. a threadlike strand of DNA that carries the genes and functions of heredity
  2. 2. something slightly different from another of the same type
  3. 3. the condition of being alike or similar
  4. 5. a characteristic that distinguishes one individual from another
  5. 7. the molecule that carries genetic information in all living things