Genetics

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The location on a baseball field where the ___ is stationed (5)
  2. 6. Anything that contributes causally to a result (plural) (7)
  3. 7. An illness that harms the body (plural) (8)
  4. 9. A father or mother (plural) (7)
  5. 11. A garment size for a ___ person (4)
  6. 13. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age (plural) (11)
  7. 14. The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (8)

Down

  1. 1. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature (plural) (6)
  2. 2. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  3. 4. The immediate descendants of a person (9)
  4. 5. A person who is born while the sun is in Gemini (plural) (5)
  5. 8. A group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution (8)
  6. 9. What an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment (9)
  7. 10. An allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical (9)
  8. 12. A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function (plural) (6)
  9. 14. A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (4)