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Across
  1. 2. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
  2. 4. selection
  3. 6. one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
  4. 8. selection is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations.
  5. 9. the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
Down
  1. 1. the action or process of mutating
  2. 3. the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
  3. 5. a self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
  4. 7. he process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.