Across
- 2. an Austrian monk whose study of garden peas earned him the title Father of Genetics
- 7. - the physical characteristics of an organism that show how genes are expressed
- 9. A section of DNA that determines a specific trait, such as eye color
- 11. a natural law stating that a dominant allele will always mask a recessive allele
- 13. organism that always produces offspring with identical traits
- 15. having two recsive alleles for a trait
- 16. variations of the same gene; for example, blue and brown and different alleles for eye color.
Down
- 1. two different alleles
- 3. the combination of alleles for a particular trait (Homozygous or heterozygous)
- 4. having two of the same alleles for a trait
- 5. a trait that is expressed over another trait
- 6. a trait that can be hidden by another trait
- 8. two of the same alleles for a trait
- 10. having two dominant alleles for a trait
- 12. the passing of traits from one generation to the next
- 14. the study of heredity
