Genetics

2. the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
4. the study of living organisms
5. the trait that first appears or is visibly expressed in the organism.
9. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
12. the young born of living organisms.
13. the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism
15. change or cause to change in form or nature.
16. a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something
18. the trait that is present at the gene level but is masked and does not show itself in the organism.
20. based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science.
22. the progressive changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism.
24. an organism that produces or generates offspring.
26. derive genetically from one's parents or ancestors.
27. the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA.
28. a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.

1. the haploid set of chromosomes in a gamete or microorganism, or in each cell of a multicellular organism.
3. the sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring.
4. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
6. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
7. a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it.
8. the number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding.
10. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
11. a genetically determined characteristic.
14. affecting some things and not others.
17. the process in which ribosomes in the cytoplasm or endoplasmic reticulum synthesize proteins after the process of transcription of DNA to RNA in the cell's nucleus.
18. the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process.
19. the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations.
21. a molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth, and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses.
23. relating to or consisting of molecules.
25. an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development.