Heredity crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
  2. 4. To receive from one's parents
  3. 6. A type of trait that is expressed when put against a recessive gene.
  4. 8. The study of heredity.
  5. 10. The genetic material that carries information about an organism that is passed from parent to offspring
  6. 11. The different forms of a gene.
Down
  1. 1. A characteristic of an organism that can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
  2. 3. My name.
  3. 5. A unitic genetic material that determines a trait
  4. 7. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor.
  5. 9. A threadlike strand of DNA in the nucleus that controls cell activity. Humans have 46.