Across
- 3. having two different alleles for a specific trait
- 5. the alleles that an organism inherits from parents
- 6. the first generation of offspring
- 8. pair of alleles are separated during meiosis
- 9. the parent generation
- 11. tool used to predict the outcome of a cross between two individuals
- 13. the trait that is masked if the dominant trait is present
- 15. the physical characteristics of an organism
- 16. a genetically determined variant of a characteristic
Down
- 1. the second generation of offspring
- 2. the trait that will mask the other trait in a characteristic
- 4. alleles separate independently of one another during meiosis
- 7. having identical alleles for a specific trait
- 10. the field of biology that studies how characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring
- 12. the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring
- 14. alternative forms of a gene