Inheritance

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Across
  1. 6. — The genetic makeup of an organism that determines traits.
  2. 8. — The process through which traits are passed from parents to offspring.
  3. 9. — The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
  4. 12. — A hereditary disorder that affects the blood’s ability to clot.
  5. 14. — The differences in traits among individuals of the same species.
  6. 15. — The father of genetics who discovered the basic laws of inheritance.
Down
  1. 1. — The branch of science that studies heredity and variation.
  2. 2. — A sudden change in a gene or chromosome.
  3. 3. — A specific characteristic of an organism determined by genes.
  4. 4. — A gene that is masked by a dominant gene and only expressed when two copies are present.
  5. 5. — A unit of heredity that carries information for a specific trait.
  6. 7. — The physical appearance or observable characteristics of an organism.
  7. 10. — Having two different alleles for a particular gene.
  8. 11. — A thread-like structure made of DNA that carries genetic information.
  9. 13. — Different forms of a gene found at the same place on a chromosome.