Genetics

5. When they are different
10. The physical appearance of an organism because of its genotype is known as
11. The total genetic makeup of an organism
13. The different forms of genes are known as
14. is the science of biological heredity and variations in living plants, animals, and other organisms.
15. is the substance in chromosomes that make up genes.
17. allele is masked by the dominant allele
18. allele masks a recessive gene
20. Square diagram used to predict the outcome of breeding
21. The genes for a trait, represented by a combination of letters are known as a
23. Gregor Mendel, who studied the nature
24. the organism is said to be

1. Breeding is the selective act of mating plants and animals to achieve desired traits in the offspring.
2. When they are the same in
3. is the transmission of parental traits to offspring
4. genetics is based on the work
6. is a unit of heredity information consisting of a specific sequence in DNA.
7. is the act of choosing parents with the desired traits.
8. is the breeding of different breeds of animals or varieties of plants.
9. code is the specific arrangement of DNA within the genes.
12. is the crossing of two different, but closely related, plants or animals
16. the organism is said to be
19. genetics is based on the structure of DNA
22. inheritance in plants in the mid-1800s.