Y11 Inheritance and Selection

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A prominent attribute or aspect of something (14)
  2. 6. Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (12)
  3. 7. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature (5)
  4. 10. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property (11)
  5. 13. Of a function or curve (10)
  6. 14. A reproduction of a written record (plural) (6)
  7. 15. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes (7)

Down

  1. 1. Of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings (13)
  2. 2. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  3. 3. A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (plural) (5)
  4. 5. The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer (12)
  5. 8. Understatement for rhetorical effect (7)
  6. 9. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment (9)
  7. 11. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (10)
  8. 12. Any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red (4)