Across
- 6. making productive by adding nutrients
- 7. receive from a predecessor
- 9. the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
- 10. a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
- 11. a particle in a cell that helps synthesize proteins
- 14. specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape
- 15. any of the forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus
Down
- 1. Pp,pp,PP
- 2. a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell
- 3. a change or alteration in form or qualities
- 4. the stronger gene
- 5. blue eyes
- 8. having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci
- 9. a threadlike strand of DNA that carries genes
- 12. the weaker gene
- 13. are a unit of hereditary which is transferred from a parent to offspring