DNA Vocab

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Across
  1. 6. The study of heredity, or how traits are passed down from one generation to the next
  2. 7. copy of the DNA in a cell is made before the cell divides.
  3. 8. Mutations in which one or more nucleotides are added into the DNA sequence.
  4. 9. Straight hair line, no freckles, no widows peak
  5. 11. Mutations in which a base pair is replaced by a different base pair.
  6. 13. Diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment
Down
  1. 1. Alternates DNA
  2. 2. Freckles, Dimples, Widows Peak
  3. 3. traits that are typically passed vertically from parent to child where both the parent and the child are affected by the trait or disorder that is related to that gene
  4. 4. One of two or more versions of a genetic sequence at a particular region on a chromosome
  5. 5. Eye color, skin color, hair color, height, etc.
  6. 10. two linked strands that wind around each other to resemble a twisted ladder
  7. 12. can be carried in a person's genes without appearing in that person