Heredity

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Across
  1. 2. To guess what will happen in the future using information.
  2. 5. A weak trait that is hidden by a dominant one.
  3. 7. A scientist who made a tool to help see which traits children might get.
  4. 11. When you put two plants or animals together to make babies.
  5. 12. Small "packages" of information from parents that tell your body how to grow.
  6. 13. When parents pass their traits to their children.
  7. 14. To get something (like eye color) from your parents.
  8. 16. A square chart used to show all the possible traits offspring can have.
Down
  1. 1. A person's children or a plant's new baby plants.
  2. 3. A strong trait that covers up a weaker one.
  3. 4. A scientist who studies genes and heredity.
  4. 6. A man who studied pea plants to learn how traits are passed down.
  5. 8. Things you can see on a person, like eye color or height.
  6. 9. The different versions of a gene (like a "tall" version or a "short" version).
  7. 10. A group of people or plants born at the same time (like all the children in a family).
  8. 15. Exactly the same.