Genetics/Meiosis Crossword

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Across
  1. 9. produces a plant that has two different parents.
  2. 10. scientific study of heredity.
  3. 15. when the phenotypes produced by both alleles are clearly expressed.
  4. 16. fusion of male and female gametes.
  5. 19. generation are offspring of the P generation.
  6. 22. female gametes.
  7. 23. the heterozygous phenotype lies somewhere between the two homozygous phenotypes.
  8. 24. undergoes cell division by mitosis and eventually forms a new organism.
  9. 26. haploid cells produced by meiosis II.
  10. 30. process in which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the separation of homologous chromosomes.
  11. 31. cells have pairs of homologous chromosomes.
  12. 32. organisms that have two different alleles.
  13. 33. likelihood that a particular event will occur.
  14. 34. physical traits.
  15. 35. generation is the parents.
Down
  1. 1. sperm cells fertilize egg cells from within the same flower.
  2. 2. convenient to study.
  3. 3. genetic makeup.
  4. 4. strands of DNA and protein that are the carriers of genes.
  5. 5. factors that are passed from parent to offspring.
  6. 6. when a gene has more than two possible alleles.
  7. 7. shows the result of a cross.
  8. 8. when two genes do not influence each other's inheritance.
  9. 11. something we each receive from our parents.
  10. 12. generation are offspring of the F1 generation.
  11. 13. cells have a single set of chromosomes.
  12. 14. offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.
  13. 17. states that some alleles are dominant and others are recessive.
  14. 18. delivery of characteristics from parent to offspring.
  15. 20. separation of alleles in gametes.
  16. 21. gene variations produced different expressions, or forms, of each trait.
  17. 25. controlled by two or more genes.
  18. 27. have two contrasting characteristics.
  19. 28. male gametes.
  20. 29. organisms that have two identical alleles.