Vocab Terms

2. a distinguishing quality or characteristic
3. one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome
6. the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
10. Organisms that have two different alleles for same trait
12. a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell
13. Used to help make predictions
15. Set the foundation of science genetics
16. the separation of pairs of alleles at meiosis and their independent transmission via separate gametes
17. Before a cell divides it duplicates in a copying process
18. Eukaryotic chromosomes tightly packed together from a substance

1. cell or nucleus not having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
4. Principal enzyme involved in Dna replication
5. Organisms that have two identical alleles for a particular trait
7. the genetic constitution of an individual organism
8. A four-part structure that forms during the prophase of meiosis and consists of two homologous chromosomes
9. The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits
11. Dna that is tightly coiled around proteins
14. An average outcome of a large number of events
15. transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring