Intro to Genetics

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Across
  1. 3. Gregor Mendel is the ________ of genetics
  2. 4. the genetic makeup of an individual.
  3. 7. Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to__________.
  4. 8. Most traits that Mendel studied came in _______ forms.
  5. 9. the branch of biology that studies heredity
  6. 10. this means that plant can only produce offspring with the same trait as them when they self fertilize (e.g. purple flowers)
  7. 12. different forms of a gene
  8. 14. If they are both lower case(tt), the individual is homozygous
  9. 15. Who was the first to study patterns of inheritance?
Down
  1. 1. The ratio in the F-2 generation always came out to _____ to one.
  2. 2. what did Mendel use to do most of his experiments?
  3. 5. the physical quality of an individual (tall, short)
  4. 6. pea seeds can either be round or _______
  5. 11. These alleles are always written as capital letters
  6. 13. when the alleles of the genotype are different