Mendel's Work

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Across
  1. 7. The scientific study of heredity.
  2. 8. Prior to Mendel's discovery, people thought that traits of an individual organism were a ______ of their parents' characteristics.
  3. 11. The different forms of a gene.
  4. 13. Latin word for daughter.
  5. 14. In this process, plants reproduce using their pollen and pistil.
  6. 16. Mendel is often referred to as this.
  7. 17. In the F2 generation, the _____form of the trait always reappeared.
  8. 18. A trait that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.
  9. 19. The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
  10. 20. In the F2 generation about 3/4 of the plants had this characteristic.
  11. 21. Each different form of a characteristic such as stem height, or seed color is called this.
Down
  1. 1. This monk is responsible for developing an experiment using pea plants to observe genetics.
  2. 2. A dominant allele is represented by this type of letter.
  3. 3. An organism that has two different alleles for a trait.
  4. 4. In this process, plants reproduce by taking pollen from a different plant.
  5. 5. The offsprings of many generations that have the same trait.
  6. 6. In all of Mendel's crosses only _____form of the trait appeared in the F1 generation.
  7. 9. A recessive allele is represent by this type of letter.
  8. 10. A trait that always shows up in the organisms when then allele is present.
  9. 12. Latin word for son.
  10. 13. The process by which egg and sperm join.
  11. 15. The factors that control a trait.