Genetics Vocabulary
Across
- 4. A trait that shows through covers up another trait.
- 6. The mathematical chance of an offspring inheriting a certain phenotype or genotype.
- 7. An offspring genetically identical to its parent, this happens through asexual reproduction
- 11. Cell ______ is when the cell divides into two, it may due this to grow, repair cells, or create new organisms.
- 12. A ______ square is one that can be used to calculate what alleles and offspring may have.
- 13. The instructions for a trait that you inherit.
- 14. ____ plants were used in Mendel's experiments because they were fast to grow and reproduce, they could self poliant, and had a variety of traits to observe.
- 17. When there is two of the same trait coding for the same thing, for example tt or TT.
- 19. A trait that is covered up by another, you are unable to see it in a Heterozygous genotype.
- 20. ________ breeding is where you breed together two animals with a desired trait in hopes of the offspring having that trait, like more meat on a cow.
- 21. ______ reproduction is when an offspring it produced by one parent, through cell division.
- 23. The pairs of genes in an offspring, you CAN'T see it.
Down
- 1. The physical appearance that gene appears as, you do see it.
- 2. ______ reproduction requires two parents and each of them give the offspring 23 chromosomes.
- 3. _________ chromosomes are what we call each pair of chromosomes, that have similar structures and genes; one comes from each parents.
- 5. The process of cell division, the cell is in this stage 10% of its life.
- 8. These hold your DNA, and there are 46 in each human body cell.
- 9. The study heredity.
- 10. This is the stage where a cell spends 90% of its life, the cell grows, replicates DNA, and does its cell functions.
- 15. A change in genetic between generations, it was not already there.
- 16. When there is dominant and recessive trait together, for example Tt.
- 17. Traits being passed from parents to their
- 18. He was a scientist who studied genetics and used pea plants to do so. (Last name only)
- 22. The different options/forms of a gene, like dominant or recessive.