Genetics Vocabulary by Madeline Minobe
Across
- 1. a mixture
- 3. founder of the modern science of genetics
- 6. refers to a pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive
- 8. the entire genetic makeup of an organism
- 9. to win or take over
- 12. an allele that is expressed only when no dominant allele is present
Down
- 1. a pair of matching alleles, which are the two genes that control a particular trait
- 2. an organism or gene pair that are both the same
- 4. an organism's appearance or other detectable characteristics
- 5. a graphic used to predict the results of a genetic cross
- 7. one set of instructions for an inherited trait
- 10. one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic
- 11. an egg cell that has half the dna