Genetics Crosswords

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Across
  1. 3. Traits that are passed down from your parents. Ex: Skin Color, Eye Color, Hair color, dimples, etc.
  2. 6. The visual appearance of an organism or the trait seen by your naked eyes that is dependent on the genotype.
  3. 7. A unit of heredity that is transferred from parent to offspring to determine some characteristics of the offspring.
  4. 8. When your genes are composed of one dominant and one recessive allele.
  5. 9. A trait that is present only when there are two copies of an allele.
  6. 10. When your genes are composed of two recessive alleles
  7. 11. A diagram that is used by geneticists to determine the probability that an offspring will have a particular trait.
Down
  1. 1. A letter that represents variation in a gene.
  2. 2. A trait that is present when there is at least one dominant allele present in the organism.
  3. 4. When your genes are composed of two dominant alleles.
  4. 5. The genetic makeup of an organism represented by alleles.