Mendel’s Work Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. a new organism begins to form when egg and sperm join in the process of
  2. 4. different form of characteristic, such a stem height or seed color, is called a trait
  3. 6. an allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
  4. 8. The set of information that controls a trait: a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific unit
  5. 9. the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring
  6. 10. the offspring of many generations that have the same traits
Down
  1. 1. the scientific study of heredity
  2. 2. an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present
  3. 5. the different forms of a gene
  4. 7. an organism that has two different alleles for a trait: an organism that is heterozygous for a particular trait