Genetics Crossword

the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified
A disease or condition caused by an absent or defective gene or by a chromosomal aberration
he record of descent of an organism, showing it to be purebred
A trait associated with a gene that is carried only by the male or female parent
any of a class of single-stranded molecules transcribed from DNA in the cell nucleus or in the mitochondrion or chloroplast
the fundamental and distinctive characteristics or qualities of someone or something
a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells
a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell
one is dominant and one is recessive
When an individual has two of the same allele, whether dominant or recessive
the genetic constitution of an individual organism
the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment
the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties
bred from parents of the same breed or variety
an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome
a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring
the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another