Winter Season x Genetics

3. a festive drink made from a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and often made with alcohol
5. crossing organisms that differ in two traits
6. a sock hung by a fireplace around Christmas time
8. pull Santa's sleigh
9. a small toy-maker from the North Pole
11. an alternate name for Santa Claus
13. carrying two different alleles of a given gene
15. a parasitic plant that grows on trees and bears white berries in the winter
18. a small Mexican shrub with large red flowers
19. father of genetics
20. a cylindrical stick made of red- and white-striped, minty-flavored sugar with a curved end

1. carrying two copies of the same allele of a given gene
2. where Jesus slept the night he was born; a long open box or trough for horses or cattle to eat from
4. physical characteristics that can be seen
7. a type of cookie, usually shaped into a person or used to make houses
10. performed when a phenotypically dominant organism is crossed with a recessive organism to determine the genotype
12. the actual combination of alleles
14. when both alleles are phenotypically dominant
16. organisms that have two of the same alleles for the trait being studied
17. Law of ___________; states that each gamete receives only one of the two genes