Across
- 1. A distinguishing quality, trait, or feature of an individual or thing.
- 4. Genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a dominant factor.
- 7. Offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds.
- 8. Pollination that occurs when pollen from one plant reaches the pistils of a flower of a different plant.
- 10. The passing of traits from parent to offspring.
- 12. Group of genes.
- 13. Branch of biology that deals with characteristics that are inherited from one generation to the next.
- 14. The young born (children) of living organisms.
- 15. The molecule that carries genetic information. It is inside the nucleus.
Down
- 2. To receive something from someone who came before you.
- 3. Basic, inherited units of information composed of DNA segments found on chromosomes inside cells.
- 5. Thread-like structures in the cell nucleus made of DNA and protein that carry genetic information. Humans have 46 chromosomes.
- 6. Inherited characteristics.
- 9. Pollination that occurs when pollen from one plant lands on the pistils of the flower of the same plant.
- 11. Organism that always passes down certain traits to its offspring of many generations.