Across
- 4. / a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- 6. / organisms that produce identical offspring if allowed to self-pollinate
- 8. / having dissimilar pairs of genes for any hereditary characteristic.
- 10. / genetic makeup of an organism
- 13. / physical characteristics of an organism
- 14. / offspring of crosses between parents with different traits
Down
- 1. / the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- 2. / any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- 3. / an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes, ordinarily half the normal diploid number.
- 5. / diagram showing gene combinations
- 7. / having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- 9. / the science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
- 11. / a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one's personal nature
- 12. / an organism or cell having double the basic haploid number of chromosomes.