Genetics Menu Assignment

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Across
  1. 2. when it effectively overrules the other (recessive) allele.
  2. 4. each individual that is a diploid has a pair of alleles (copy) for a particular trait
  3. 5. a genetically determined characteristic.
  4. 6. discovered the basic principles of heredity
  5. 7. having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.
  6. 9. transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
  7. 11. the study of genes, genetic variation and heredity
  8. 13. one trait will conceal the presence of another trait for the same characteristic.
Down
  1. 1. threadlike structure of nucleic acid and protein
  2. 3. alleles of two (or more) different genes get sorted into gametes independently of one another.
  3. 8. a gene whose effects are masked in the presence of a dominant gene.
  4. 10. one of two or more versions of a gene.
  5. 11. genetic arrangement that makes up the traits that an organism inherited from its parents.
  6. 12. having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes.