Plant Genetics

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Across
  1. 3. only pairs with “G”
  2. 7. use living organisms to clean up toxic wastes in water and soil
  3. 11. bacteria used to produce insulin
  4. 13. discovered the effect of genetics on plant characteristics with his experimentation with garden peas
  5. 14. the offspring, or progeny, of common parents
  6. 15. small section of DNA
  7. 18. creating an exact genetic duplicate of another organism
  8. 19. use of a very small actively growing parts of the plantproduces a large number of new plants
Down
  1. 1. plant absorbs or immobilizing pollutants
  2. 2. uses plants, animals and microbes to warn us about pollutants in the environment
  3. 3. a structure that holds the genetic information of a cell
  4. 4. only pairs with “C”
  5. 5. process of removing and inserting genes from one organism and inserting them into the DNA of another
  6. 6. only pairs with “T”
  7. 8. only pairs with “A”
  8. 9. the use of living organisms to make new products or carry out new processes.
  9. 10. process of both finding and recording the locations of genes
  10. 12. Genetic Code of Life
  11. 16. transmission of characteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells
  12. 17. Like rungs of a ladder that hold the two sides of the DNA strands together.