5.3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. - related organisms making up steps in descent
  2. 6. - to receive genetics or traits from the parent(s)
  3. 8. - the first few generations of offspring
  4. 10. - the third generation of offspring
  5. 12. - to have different pairs of genes for each and any provided pair of characteristics
  6. 13. - the act of being in control; in higher power than another
  7. 14. - genetic traits that are less likely to develop among an organism
  8. 15. a chart that determines possible genetical outcomes of an offspring
Down
  1. 1. - an organelle within the cell that contains the cell’s DNA
  2. 3. trait - the trait passed from parent to offspring that is most likely to be expressed
  3. 4. - observable traits passed from parent to offspring
  4. 5. - a living organism’s basic unit of heredity
  5. 7. - the parental generation
  6. 9. trait - a characteristic determined by genetics
  7. 11. - a singular member of a pair of genes relating to specific chromosomes
  8. 12. - the act of traits passing from parent to offspring