Across
- 2. The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring
- 9. Reproduction in which a new organism is produced from a part of another organism by mitosis and cell division
- 10. Controls how offspring will look and how they will function by controlling what proteins each cell will produce
- 11. A small section of DNA on a chromosome that has information about a trait
- 12. The process that results in two nuclei, each with the same genetic information
- 13. Making copies of organisms
Down
- 1. The process in which the human egg and sperm join, resulting in 46 chromosomes
- 3. Reproduction in which a new organism is produced from the DNA of two cells
- 4. A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each with half the chromosome number of the parent cell.
- 5. The different ways that a certain trait appears
- 6. The specialized cells that carry DNA and join in sexual reproduction
- 7. The passing of traits from parents to offspring
- 8. A change in a gene or chromosome