Genetics

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Across
  1. 1. the study of heredity
  2. 6. change in the structure of a gene or chromosome
  3. 10. threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry information from cell to cell
  4. 11. the set of observable characteristics in an individual
  5. 14. the process of passing characteristics genetically from parent to child
  6. 15. a molecule that consists of a nitrogen-containing base (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine) in DNA
Down
  1. 2. process of adaption that results in changes in genetic material
  2. 3. gene that masks the effects of the reccesive gene
  3. 4. is a specific characteristic of an individual
  4. 5. the genetic makeup of an organism (an organism's complete set of genes)
  5. 7. a different version of DNA sequence
  6. 8. gene whose effects are masked in the presence of a dominant gene
  7. 9. the smallest structure of an organism
  8. 12. obtaining genetically identical DNA molecules, cells, tissues, organs and organisms by biotechnology methods
  9. 13. the basic physical and functional unit of heredity