Chapter 10 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. a process in which pollen from one plant fertilizes the eggs in a flower of a different plant
  2. 7. one form of a gene
  3. 10. the gene that shows up in an organism
  4. 11. the offspring of two different true-breeding plants
  5. 13. the passing of traits from parents to offspring
  6. 14. a model used to represent crosses between organisms
  7. 15. a cross between two plants that differ in two traits
  8. 17. having chromosomes that contain a pair of genes for a particular trait
  9. 18. a characteristic of an organism
Down
  1. 1. a law that states that each pair of chromosomes separates independently of other pairs of chromosomes in meiosis
  2. 2. tiny grains containing sperm; the male plant gamete
  3. 3. the offspring that result when two different kinds of pure plants are cross-pollinated
  4. 5. a law that states that pairs of homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis and each gamete receives one gene of a pair
  5. 6. a cross between two plants that differ in only one trait
  6. 8. the offspring that result when two hybrid plants are crossed
  7. 9. having chromosomes that contain a pair of genes that do not code for the same trait form
  8. 12. parental generation; the first two individuals that mate in a genetic cross
  9. 16. the gene that is hidden by a dominant gene