Genetics Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: allele: an alternate version of a gene, each gene has two copies of this, gamete: sex cell, it is haploid, this is what goes along the top and side of a punnett square, gene: the basic unit of inheritance, is located at a specific location on a chromosome, homozygous: a genotype where both alleles are identical, heterozygous: a genotype where the alleles are different, chromosome: a structure found in the nucleus of most living organisms that contains genetic information, dna: genetic material that carries instructions for the function and development of all cells in a living organism, incomplete: a form of dominance where the phenotype of a heterozygous offspring will display a mixture of the parent’s phenotypes, codominance: a form of dominance where the phenotype of a heterozygous offspring will display both the parent’s phenotypes individually, complete: the form of dominance where the dominant allele is expressed in both the homozygous dominant genotype and the heterozygous genotype, gene expression: when the information carried by a gene is used to create proteins; when the genotype is shown in the phenotype, genotype: the genetics that control a trait, and organism’s genetic makeup, the pair of alleles that we work with in mendelian genetics, phenotype: an organism’s visible, observable trait, dominant: if an allele is expressed when there is only one of them in the allelic pair, then it is _ over the other, recessive: in order to be expressed, this allele must be present in two copies, haploid: when a cell has one set of chromosomes, gamete cells are _ , diploid: when a cell has two sets of each chromosome, humans are considered _ organisms, genome: an organism’s complete set of genes or genetic material that is present in every cell