Across
- 3. refers to exposures to substances (such as pesticides or industrial waste)
- 4. a trait that will appear in the offspring if one of the parents contributes it
- 6. the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process.
- 7. (in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
- 9. the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
- 10. has two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.
- 11. the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
- 12. a recessive trait or gene.
- 13. a thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture.
- 14. the record of descent of an animal, showing it to be purebred.
Down
- 1. the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
- 2. a dominant trait or gene
- 5. has two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes.
- 6. a trait that must be contributed by both parents in order to appear in the offspring.
- 8. one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.
- 14. (of an animal) is bred from parents of the same breed or variety.
