Across
- 4. Coiled up DNA
- 6. All of an organism's DNA
- 7. The study of heredity
- 8. The next generation
- 10. Characteristic of an organism that gets passed from parent to offspring
- 12. The "weaker" of the two forms of a trait that should appear least often in a population
- 14. A long threadlike molecule that is the instructions for a living thing
- 15. A change in DNA that can be either harmful or beneficial
- 16. Global project that sought out to sequence the order of the 3 billion base pairs of DNA in humans
Down
- 1. As and Ts and Cs and Gs that make up the rungs of the ladder of DNA and code for our traits
- 2. Any living thing
- 3. Parts or sections or segments of DNA
- 5. The "stronger" of the two forms of a trait that should appear more often in a population
- 9. Substances that create our traits
- 11. The process of passing traits down from parent to offspring
- 13. The brain of the cell that controls a cell's activities
