Across
- 4. characteristics passed from a male and female parent to their offspring through their genes (examples: dimples, eye color, hair color, etc.)
- 6. traits (behaviors) characteristics that one learns as opposed to what is done naturally(examples: walking, talking, musical ability, etc.)
- 8. the study of heredity, or how the characteristics of living things are transmitted from one generation to the next
- 9. a segment of DNA which occupies a particular place on a chromosome; it is the basic unit of heredity
Down
- 1. a threadlike strand of DNA that carries the genes and functions of heredity
- 2. something slightly different from another of the same type
- 3. the condition of being alike or similar
- 5. a characteristic that distinguishes one individual from another
- 7. the molecule that carries genetic information in all living things