Across
- 2. Gregor Mendel studied ____ plants
- 3. If Black is the dominant form of a trait and white is the recessive form, what color feathers will a chicken with a geneotype of Bb have?
- 6. The genetic makeup of an organism
- 8. A ____ allele is one whose trait always shows up in the organism when the trait is present
- 9. An organism with two kinds of alleles for a trait
- 10. A specific characteristic such as height or eye color is called a ____
- 12. Two parents pass traits to the offspring
- 13. The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring
- 14. Alleles that are hidden when a dominant allele is present are called ____ alleles
- 18. Traits that are passed down from parent to offspring are called ____ traits
- 19. A ____ organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait
Down
- 1. The scientific study of heredity
- 4. Reproduction with only one parent
- 5. The process of ____ is when a new organism begins to form when egg and sperm cells join
- 7. A priest who's experiments would one day transform the study of heredity
- 9. Offspring of many generations that have the same form of a trait
- 11. A diagram used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment
- 15. Traits that are not inherited are ____ traits
- 16. Physical traits of an organism
- 17. The different forms of a gene
