Genetics Word Search

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A leguminous ___ of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing (8)
  2. 4. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  3. 6. Having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (12)
  4. 9. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature (5)
  5. 12. A small brownish spot on the skin (plural) (8)
  6. 13. Any event that changes genetic structure (8)
  7. 14. A garment size for a ___ person (4)

Down

  1. 1. Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual (6)
  2. 2. The location on a baseball field where the ___ is stationed (5)
  3. 3. What an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment (9)
  4. 4. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (10)
  5. 5. The fifth note of the diatonic scale (8)
  6. 7. A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization (6)
  7. 8. A group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution (8)
  8. 10. Either of a pair of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular (6)
  9. 11. A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria (6)