Genetics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
  2. 4. a distinguishing characteristic or quality
  3. 7. an organism that possesses a pair of differing alleles, one dominant and one recessive,
  4. 9. traits we can see
  5. 11. the version of the gene that is more easily hidden
  6. 12. the underlying genetic code that determines their traits
Down
  1. 1. the state of being one of two different alleles that are fully expressed in a heterozygous individual
  2. 3. any of several forms of a gene
  3. 5. an in between look
  4. 6. having identical pairs of genes
  5. 8. a gene that covers up the expression of another
  6. 10. factors that determine your traits, composed of 2 alleles, located on chromosomes