Heredity and Genetics

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Across
  1. 5. a trait an organism receives from environmental factors, not their parents
  2. 8. description of your actual physical characteristics (ex. brown
  3. 12. carries two copies of the same dominant allele (ex. PP)
  4. 14. and is held to determine some characteristic of the
  5. 16. traits passed from parent to offspring
  6. 17. one member of a pair of genes occupying a specific spot on a
  7. 18. carries two copies of the same recessive allele (ex. pp)
Down
  1. 1. the likelihood that an event will occur
  2. 2. an organism capable of reproducing
  3. 3. allele will be expressed only if there are two identical copies of that allele
  4. 4. carries one dominant allele and one recessive allele (ex. Pp)
  5. 6. that controls the same trait
  6. 7. he passing of traits from parent to offspring
  7. 9. a diagram used to predict the outcome of a particular cross
  8. 10. produces a dominant phenotype in individuals who have one copy of the allele
  9. 11. the scientific term for a baby
  10. 13. complete genetic identity and unique to the organism
  11. 15. a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to