Inheritance

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A female parent. (6)
  2. 8. The immediate descendants of a person (9)
  3. 9. Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes (13)
  4. 12. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  5. 13. An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell (plural) (9)
  6. 14. A purine base found in DNA and RNA (7)
  7. 15. The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (8)

Down

  1. 1. Understatement for rhetorical effect (7)
  2. 3. A base found in DNA and derived from pyrimidine (7)
  3. 4. A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine (8)
  4. 5. Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (12)
  5. 6. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (10)
  6. 7. A long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell (3)
  7. 9. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization (6)
  8. 10. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property (11)
  9. 11. The fifth note of the diatonic scale (8)