Across
- 2. Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents
- 3. An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.
- 4. Passing naturally from parent to offspring through the genes
- 7. The genetic properties or features of an organism
- 9. Product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents
- 11. An organism’s physical appearance, or visible traits.
- 14. A reproductive process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents
- 15. An organism’s genetic makeup, or allele combinations
- 17. Having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes
- 18. Different forms of a gene
- 19. A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
- 20. The genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parent to offspring
Down
- 1. Process of reproduction involving a single parent that results in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent
- 5. An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
- 6. The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring
- 8. Having two idetical alleles of a particular gene or genes
- 10. Process in sexual reproduction in which male and female reproductive cells join to form a new cell
- 12. Presence of differences in sequences of genes between individual organisms of a species
- 13. Presence of differences in sequences of genes between individual organisms of a species
- 16. A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait