Genetics Study Guide for Lesson 54-65

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Across
  1. 4. artificial asexual reproduction of an organism that usually produces sexually
  2. 6. a random change in a gene
  3. 7. the union of sperm and egg
  4. 11. the trait that is “hidden”
  5. 12. an organism inherits traits from one parent
  6. 14. a monk that studied pea plants and discovered that genes could be dominant or recessive
  7. 15. the small bodies inside a nucleus that contain the genes
  8. 16. an organism that has alleles for two different traits
  9. 17. explains how traits are created or changed by the environment
Down
  1. 1. a diagram that shows how likely each outcome of a breeding experiment is
  2. 2. the trait that “shows”
  3. 3. traits that are passed from parents to their children
  4. 5. two copies of the gene for each characteristic
  5. 8. inherited bits of information that are passed from parents’ cells to the child’s cells
  6. 9. an organism inherits traits from two different parents
  7. 10. explains how traits are determined by genetics
  8. 13. an organism that has only one kind of allele for one type of trait