Science
Across
- 3. the wanted characteristic or property of an organism
- 4. the observable traits of an individual, which are passed on from parent to offspring
- 8. a group of related organisms making up a single step in the line of descent
- 12. the genetic code passed down from parents to offspring that determines all physical and physiological traits, also called phenotypes
- 13. the intracellular structures made of the cell's double-stranded DNA genome packaged bound to DNA-binding proteins
- 14. a hybrod that is heterozygous with respect to a specified gene
Down
- 1. the product of a male and a female carrier
- 2. an organism that has two different alleles for a trait
- 5. The information from the gene
- 6. the process by which living things produce offspring; a fundamental feature of all known life
- 7. the basic unit of heredity in a living organism; a segment of DNA or RNA
- 9. a characteristic or property of an organism
- 10. an organism that has a pair of identical alleles for a trait
- 11. the passing of traits from parent to offspring