Genetics Review

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Across
  1. 4. The passing on of physical traits from parents to their offspring
  2. 5. When you inherit 2 different alleles for a gene
  3. 7. The physical expression of a trait that you see
  4. 8. An individual that is heterozygous for a recessive trait but does not have it.
  5. 12. The cellular organelle that stores DNA for an organism
  6. 13. The segment of DNA that carries the genetic information
Down
  1. 1. When you inherit 2 of the same allele for a gene
  2. 2. The variations of a gene that are possible for a trait
  3. 3. The actual genes you inherited for a trait
  4. 6. This is the trait that will always be expressed if it is present
  5. 9. A trait that is masked unless two of them are inherited
  6. 10. The threadlike structure in the nucleus that carries the genetic information
  7. 11. A molecule with a double helix structure that carries the genetic information for an individual