Inheritance Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. One dominant allele and one recessive allele (Tt)
  2. 3. a genetically determined characteristic
  3. 7. result of a reproductive process; children
  4. 8. the material that makes up our chromosomes and stores our genetic information
  5. 9. allele that masks the presence of another allele for the same gene when they occur together in a heterozygote; shown with capital letters
  6. 11. one of two or more different versions of the same gene; dominant or recessive
  7. 12. science of heredity, or how traits are passed from parents to offspring
  8. 13. Austrian monk who lived in the 1800s and discovered the laws of inheritance by careful, repeated experiments with pea plants; called the “father of genetics”
Down
  1. 1. a segment of DNA that carries the genetic code to make a specific polypeptide chain
  2. 2. Two of the same alleles; can be homozygous dominant or homozygous recessive (TT or tt)
  3. 4. allele that is masked by the presence of another allele for the same gene when they occur together in a heterozygote; shown with lowercase letters
  4. 5. coiled structure made of DNA and protein that is present during cell division
  5. 6. characteristics of an organism that depend on how the organism’s genotype is expressed; {the effect of the code}
  6. 10. a way to describe the combination of alleles that an individual has for a certain gene; usually letter combinations (TT, tt, Tt) {the code}