Genetics and Evolution Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• asexual : the formation of living things from one parent only
• sexual : the production of living things by combining cells from two parents
• gamete : a sex cell
• fertilisation : the joining or fusion of sex cells
• characteristics : traits or features of an organism that can be passed on from parents to their offspring
• variation : differences in humans/organisms
• inheritance : differences that are passed on from one parent to their children by genes
• noninheritance : differences that are not controlled by genes
• chromosomes : thread-like structures found in the nucleus of each plant and animal cell
• genes : short section of dna located on chromosomes
• dominant : gene that is represented with a capital letter (e.g. b for brown eyes)
• recessive : gene that is represented with a lowercase letter (e.g. b for blue eyes)
• genotype : the genes an organism possesses
• phenotype : what the organism looks like
• homozygous : two of the same gene (both dominant or both recessive)
• heterozygous : two different genes (one dominant and one recessive)
• biodiversity : different types of living things
• evolution : the process by which different kinds of living things develop from earlier forms by genetic changes over long periods of time.
• species : a group of living things that can reproduce together to produce offspring which themselves can reproduce
• mutation : a change in a gene
• fossils : the remains of very ancient living things