Genes and Genetics

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  2. 6. A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (4)
  3. 7. A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into (6)
  4. 8. Tiniest unit of living things (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity (7)
  2. 2. Either of a pair of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular (6)
  3. 3. The immediate descendants of a person (9)
  4. 4. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  5. 7. A long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like (3)