Genetics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. 1 parent
  2. 6. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
  3. 9. an exact copy
  4. 10. HH or hh
  5. 11. Mendel Father of genetics
  6. 12. 2 parents
  7. 14. Hh
  8. 17. traits passed down from generations
  9. 18. an educated guess
  10. 19. the letters
  11. 20. Capital Letter
Down
  1. 1. crossing two organisms
  2. 3. lowercase letter
  3. 4. the physical trait
  4. 5. the genetic makeup
  5. 7. traits you get from your parents
  6. 8. a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
  7. 13. representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure,
  8. 15. they physical characteristic you get from your parents
  9. 16. square graph used to see what traits the offspring will have