Across
- 1. Passing traits parents to children
- 6. Physical characteristics of a person
- 7. Occurs in families
- 8. Only shows up when it is similarly paired
- 9. Genetic makeup of an organism
- 10. Basic structural unit of all organisms
- 12. Always produces offspring with the same form of trait as parent
- 15. Change or alteration in a cell
- 16. Strands of DNA carries genes
- 19. Two different alleles for a trait
Down
- 2. Produces same phenotype whether it is identical or not
- 3. Scientific study of heredity
- 4. One of two or more DNA sequences occurs at a particular gene locus
- 5. Instructions in a gene
- 11. Genetically determined characteristics
- 12. Chart shows all possible combinations of alleles that result from a genetic cross
- 13. Carries genetic information in a cell
- 14. Part of DNA controls growth
- 17. Same genes
- 18. Different genes