Across
- 2. Term used to describe baby born to soon
- 3. Traits that always show in a person even if only one gene of the pair is inherited for that trait.
- 4. Organ in a woman's body which a baby develops during pregnancy.
- 7. Tube which connects the ovary to the uterus
- 10. A tiny threadlike structure in the nucleus of every cell
- 12. The complete blueprint for the creation of a person
- 14. First stage of labor during which the cervix opens.
- 15. The release of the ovum from the ovary
- 16. The fertilized egg
- 17. A female reproductive organ in which ova or eggs are produced.
- 19. Delivery method in which the mother's abdomen and uterus are surgically opened and the baby is removed.
- 20. Fluid surrounding a fetus within the amnion.
- 23. Traits that typically do not show in a person unless both genes for the trait are inherited.
Down
- 1. The baby's development during pregnancy that is grouped into 3 stages
- 5. Process of sperm fertilizing the ovum
- 6. Doctors who specialize in pregnancy and birth.
- 8. An egg cell
- 9. Cord that connects baby to the placenta.
- 11. The complex molecules that make up genes
- 13. Change in the baby's position in which the uterus settles downward and forward, and the baby descends lower into the pelvis.
- 18. A unit that determines a human's inherited charactersistics
- 21. The inability to conceive a child
- 22. The male cell