Genetics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. An offspring of many generations that has the same form of a trait.
  2. 6. An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.
  3. 8. The study of heredity.
  4. 9. The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
  5. 10. A sequence of DNA that determines a trait and is passed from parent from parent to offspring.
Down
  1. 1. An offspring of crosses that has two different alleles for a trait.
  2. 3. An allele that is hidden whenever the dominant allele is present.
  3. 4. A specific characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring through its genes.
  4. 5. The process in sexual reproduction in which an egg cell and a sperm cell join to form a new cell.
  5. 7. The different forms of genes.