Genetics

2. The fundamental, physical, and functional unit of heredity.
4. The passing of genetic factors from parent to offspring.
6. A structure within the cell that bears the genetic material.
8. One member of a pair of genes occupying a specific spot on a chromosome.
9. An organism that expresses the dominant gene.
11. the study of the patterns of inheritance of specific traits. Relating to genes and genetic information.
13. Having two identical alleles that code for the same trait.
15. Mendel Augustinian monk and botanist who formulated the laws of heredity based on his careful breeding experiments on garden pea plants.

1. Square Helps show all possible allelic combinations of gametes in a cross of parents with known genotypes in order to predict the probability of their offspring possessing certain sets of alleles.
3. New organisms produced by a living thing.
4. Having dissimilar alleles that code for the same gene or trait.
5. Pertaining to, a gene (or allele) whose phenotypic expression is masked by a dominant gene (or allele).
7. A double-stranded nucleic acid that contains the genetic information for cell growth, division, and function.
10. The physical appearance or biochemical characteristic of an organism.
12. Characteristics or attributes of an organism that are expressed by genes.
14. The entire set of genes in an organism.