Genetics Vocabulary by Madeline Minobe

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Across
  1. 1. a mixture
  2. 3. founder of the modern science of genetics
  3. 6. refers to a pair of genes where one is dominant and one is recessive
  4. 8. the entire genetic makeup of an organism
  5. 9. to win or take over
  6. 12. an allele that is expressed only when no dominant allele is present
Down
  1. 1. a pair of matching alleles, which are the two genes that control a particular trait
  2. 2. an organism or gene pair that are both the same
  3. 4. an organism's appearance or other detectable characteristics
  4. 5. a graphic used to predict the results of a genetic cross
  5. 7. one set of instructions for an inherited trait
  6. 10. one of the alternative forms of a gene that governs a characteristic
  7. 11. an egg cell that has half the dna