Meiosis Crossword Puzzle
Download and print this "Meiosis" crossword puzzle, or solve it online directly in your browser. For the printable version, use a pencil or pen to fill in the answers. The completed answers are included, so you can easily check your work when you're finished.
PDF will include puzzle sheet and the answer key.
Related puzzles:
More Science Crossword Puzzles
The Bones
Bone Stuff
Ocean Tide Terms
Chemical Reactions - Thermodynamics
Changes in Matter
QUESTIONS LIST:
- meiosis: process in eukaryotic, sexually-reproducing animals.
- synapsis: pairing of chromosomes.
- chiasma: the location where the exchange of gene segments happen.
- pachytene: exchange of gene segments between two non-sister chromatid.
- gametes: the reproductive cells of an organism.
- prokaryotic: a cell that is unicellular.
- diplotene: bivalent chromosomes unbutton themselves.
- diploid: type of cell that has two set of chromosomes.
- zygotene: synapsis occurs.
- haploid: type of cell that has only one set of chromosomes.
- diakinesis: homologous chromosomes completely separate from each other.
- bivalent: term used for a pair of chromosomes.
- eukaryotic: a cell that is multicellular.
- crossing over: the process of exchange of gene segments.
- leptotene: chromosomes show condensation.
