Across
- 4. Families have their own rules and different customs, such as celebrating different holidays.
- 6. chemicals on your chromosomes
- 7. Genes give _____ for cells.
- 9. group of people who care about and are responsible for each other
- 10. what blood cells make
- 12. Chinese holiday celebrated with parades and fireworks
- 13. How many skin cells make up your skin?
- 14. holiday where families decorate trees
Down
- 1. to receive something that is passed down to you
- 2. a cell's control center
- 3. short, wiggly "rods" made of genes that are inside the nucleus of a cell
- 5. Everyone is _____ because there are things that make each person different from anyone else.
- 8. holiday celebrated in Puerto Rico called Feast of _______
- 11. Genes make sure that bone cells grow _____ from blood cells and nerve cells.
- 12. holiday where families light a special candlestick with eight candles
- 14. smallest unit of any living thing