Genetics and Variation

4. Something needed by an organism. For example, plants need light as a resource and animals need food.
5. The new organisms produced by reproduction.
6. A feature of an organism
10. data that can take any value with only slight differences between two limits. Examples include length, mass, time.
11. nothing to do with living organisms (e.g. temperature, the wind).
14. The differences between things.
15. A structure found in the nuclei of cells that contains one enormously long DNA molecule.
16. A cell used for sexual reproduction.
17. The ‘control centre’ of a cell, where genetic information is found.

1. Fusing of a male gamete with a female gamete.
2. Data values that can only have one of a small set number of options. Examples include shoe sizes and blood groups.
3. The conditions in a habitat caused by physical environmental factors and living organisms.
7. a specific characteristic of an individual
8. A group of organisms that can reproduce with each other to produce offspring that will also be able to reproduce.
9. of an organism that affects another organism (such as competition or predation).
12. Short for deoxyribonucleic acid.
13. A feature that an organism gets from a parent is inherited.
16. Section of the long strand of DNA found in a chromosome, which contains instructions for a characteristic.