Across
- 3. organisms that come from parents
- 6. the alleles an individual has for a trait
- 9. Darwin's idea that all life on our planet came from one common ancestor
- 10. same alleles
- 11. genetic material used by living things
- 14. different alleles
- 16. specific sections of DNA that carry instructions
- 17. basic unit of structure & function in living things
- 18. store information and are made of tightly wound DNA
Down
- 1. documents the history of life
- 2. a group of the same species living in an area
- 4. tool that helps us predict the traits of offspring based on the parents
- 5. different versions of the same gene
- 7. DNA is made up of smaller building blocks called ___________
- 8. trait that is observed
- 12. changes in DNA
- 13. area inside of the cell where chromosomes are stored
- 15. process in which four unique gametes are formed from a single parent cell
