Across
- 3. A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
- 5. Process by which a single parent reproduces by itself
- 6. A diagram to determine the traits of offspring from two parents
- 7. Passing down traits from parents to offspring
- 11. A pattern in which both versions of a gene show
- 13. A random error in gene replication that leads to a change
- 14. Another name for homozygous
- 16. Made up of DNA and proteins
- 17. The physical and visible traits of a person
- 18. An organism that has two different alleles for a trait
Down
- 1. Another name for heterozygous
- 2. The genes and alleles of a person
- 4. The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation
- 5. Different versions of a gene
- 8. A trait influenced by experience or the environment.
- 9. Describes a trait that covers over, or masks, another form of that trait.
- 10. A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait
- 12. Process in which a male cell and a female cell join
- 13. Division of the nucleus
- 15. An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait