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Across
  1. 5. an individual's collection of genes
  2. 7. each individual that is a diploid has a pair of alleles (copy) for a particular trait.
  3. 9. This is what is made up of DNA
  4. 11. a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
  5. 12. different genes independently separate from one another when reproductive cells develop.
  6. 15. a _____ trait or gene.
Down
  1. 1. one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation
  2. 2. an individual's observable traits
  3. 3. A structure found inside the nucleus of a cell
  4. 4. having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes.
  5. 6. Founder of the science of genetics
  6. 8. one of the pairs of inherited traits will be dominant and the others recessive unless both the factors are recessive.
  7. 10. The presence of two different alleles at a particular gene locus.
  8. 13. can produce a noticeable effect only when two copies of the gene are present
  9. 14. the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristic