Genetics Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Gregor Mendel studied ____ plants
  2. 3. If Black is the dominant form of a trait and white is the recessive form, what color feathers will a chicken with a geneotype of Bb have?
  3. 6. The genetic makeup of an organism
  4. 8. A ____ allele is one whose trait always shows up in the organism when the trait is present
  5. 9. An organism with two kinds of alleles for a trait
  6. 10. A specific characteristic such as height or eye color is called a ____
  7. 12. Two parents pass traits to the offspring
  8. 13. The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring
  9. 14. Alleles that are hidden when a dominant allele is present are called ____ alleles
  10. 18. Traits that are passed down from parent to offspring are called ____ traits
  11. 19. A ____ organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait
Down
  1. 1. The scientific study of heredity
  2. 4. Reproduction with only one parent
  3. 5. The process of ____ is when a new organism begins to form when egg and sperm cells join
  4. 7. A priest who's experiments would one day transform the study of heredity
  5. 9. Offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait
  6. 11. A diagram used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment
  7. 15. Traits that are not inherited are ____ traits
  8. 16. Physical traits of an organism
  9. 17. The different forms of a gene