Inheritance and Selection

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A person who is born while the sun is in Gemini (plural) (5)
  2. 4. Tiniest unit of living things (plural) (5)
  3. 6. The immediate descendants of a person (9)
  4. 8. A father or mother (plural) (7)
  5. 9. To obtain from someone after their death (7)
  6. 10. A prominent attribute or aspect of something (plural) (8)
  7. 11. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  8. 13. No longer in existence (7)
  9. 14. A measure of how likely it is that some event will occur (11)
  10. 15. A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Living things like dogs and birds (7)
  2. 3. A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms (6)
  3. 5. The natural world around us (11)
  4. 7. The descendants of one individual (8)
  5. 9. Being the exact same one (9)
  6. 12. To have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant (9)