Heredity and Genetics

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Across
  1. 3. to receive from ones parents, such as a trait
  2. 5. strong form of a gene which is expressed even if a recessive gene is present
  3. 7. a trait or character that is genetically inherited or passed down from generation to generation
  4. 9. the study of heredity
  5. 10. the young of a person such as a trait
  6. 12. the passing of traits from parents to offspring
  7. 14. a characteristic than an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes
  8. 15. the genetic material that carries information about an organism and that is passed from parent to offspring
Down
  1. 1. a threadlike strand of coiled dna in the nucleus that controls cell activity and carries genetic material to pass traits to offspring, humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes
  2. 2. a physical characteristic that is not inherited but may be an effect of the enviornment
  3. 4. a unit of genetic material that determines a trait
  4. 6. the different form of a gene
  5. 8. weak form of a gene which is not expressed when the dominant form is also present
  6. 11. all of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor
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