Inheritance Patterns Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. Mating of two organisms (Two parents
  2. 8. Separation of genes during gamete formation
  3. 11. The position of a gene in a chromosome
  4. 14. Examines the inheritance of two different traits
  5. 16. Mutations in different genes can cause the same disease
  6. 18. Mating between two direct relatives
Down
  1. 1. refers to an individual’s physical appearance.
  2. 2. one of several alternative forms of a gene at a given gene locus
  3. 3. A cross that examines one trait
  4. 4. has identical alleles at a given gene locus
  5. 6. refers to an individual’s genes
  6. 7. is Used to model the cross between two parents with known genotypes
  7. 9. Distinguishing characteristics that are inherited
  8. 10. The alleles of two or more different genes get sorted into gametes independent of one another
  9. 12. The chance that an outcome will occur
  10. 13. "father of modern genetics"
  11. 15. has two different alleles at a given gene locus.
  12. 17. is the presence of two alleles in a heterozygous state