Genetics

2. The parents and relations of a person or an animal.
8. Each parent gives its --------- genetic material for a form of the trait.
10. Scientists show how traits combine by using this diagram.
11. These are very important in science. When you come to a passage with a lot of -------, slow down.
13. These show up even if only one parent has the gene. Right handedness, for example.
16. A disorder caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.
19. These traits don't show unless an individual inherits two copies of the gene, one from each parent.
23. The name of tests that can tell people if they have inherited certain disorders.
24. Genetic screening can help detect -------- before they develop.
25. Deformity, malformed, not normal.

1. This test, on a fetus, can detect many disorders caused by genetic abnormalities.
3. A disease that slowly attacks the brain, is inherited and there is no cure for.
4. All o-------- pass down traits to their offspring.
5. Genetic --------- of the unborn helps parents decide whether to go ahead with the pregnancy.
6. -------- is the passing of traits from parents to their young.
7. The study of how traits are inherited is called --------.
9. All organisms inherit features or ------ from their parents.
12. Friend (slang)
14. The form of a trait that doesn't always show is called a --------- trait.
15. Go. (Slang)
17. Down syndrome is a disorder caused by the presence of an extra ----------.
18. All of the people born and living at about the same time. For example, millennials.
20. You can't catch Huntington's like a cold, you ------- it from your parents.
21. This is a dominant trait. b---- ----
22. This is caused by a virus or bacteria, it's not inherited. p--------