Across
- 2. the organ in which the baby develops and is protected until birth
- 4. the time the baby can survive if born early
- 7. the outermost membrane that surrounds the baby in the uterus
- 8. threadlike structures that carry genes in living cells
- 10. the couple is permanently unable to conceive or the women is unable to carry the biological child
- 13. couples who try to conceive and are unable to do so within a year
- 14. the baby is called this during the embryonic stage
Down
- 1. begins 9 weeks after conception
- 3. a disorder caused by the body's inability to use sugar properly
- 5. the joining of the ovum and sperm
- 6. the baby's movement that is felt by the mother
- 9. a trait not typically expressed in a person unless both genes for the trait is inherited
- 11. a virus that can cross the placenta and affect the baby during the first 3 months of pregnancy
- 12. a birth that occurs before 39 weeks of pregnancy