Across
- 2. the process in which characteristics are passed from parents to offspring
- 3. the specific job or role of an organelle
- 4. the type of plant tissue that transports food from the leaves to the other parts of the plant
- 6. the offspring of many generations that have the same traits
- 11. the specific genetic makeup or code for a specific trait
- 12. an organism that lived in the past that is related to present and future organisms
- 13. a segment of DNA that has the code for trait
- 14. represented by lowercase letters and will only show up if paired together with a similar allele
- 16. anything that has mass and takes up space
- 20. the scientific study of heredity
- 21. a living or once living part of an ecosystem
- 22. the type of plant that carries water and minerals from the roots to the leaves and gives support to the stem or trunk
- 24. large communities on earth with similar climates and organisms
- 25. the product of offspring from a single parent
- 27. a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific function.
Down
- 1. the production of offspring from two parents
- 5. the storage area of the cell
- 7. represented by capital letters and will always show up if present
- 8. the role an animal or plant species play in the environment
- 9. genetic messenger which carries genetic code from he DNA inside the nucleus into the cytoplasm
- 10. all of the offspring that are at the same stage of decent from a common ancestor
- 15. changes that occur in an ecosystem and affect organisms
- 17. a group of similar cells that do the same sort of work
- 18. the basic unit of life
- 19. an organism that obtains energy from the sun through the process of photosynthesis
- 23. an organism that is related to a particular ancestor
- 26. long chains of molecules, containing genetic information, that make up chromosomes