Urinary / Reproduction / Hereditary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• phenotype : physical external appearance of an organism
• placenta : organ that is shared between mom and baby and allows oxygen and nutrients to diffuse and secretes important hormoes
• dominant : genes can be recessive or _
• diploid : chromosome condition of a cell which has 23 pairs of chromosomes
• recessive : an allele present in the genotype whose expression in the phenotype is masked by the other allele and only shows up when there are 2 of them in the genotype
• umbilicalcord : connection between mom and baby
• endometrium : where the blastocyst embeds and divides into the trophoblast and embryoblast
• oogenesis : creation of the ova for females
• heterozygous : individual having 2 alleles that influence a characteristic in different ways
• reabsorption : returns most of the filtered water and solutes to the bloodstream using active or passive transport
• corpusluteum : temporarily produces hormones until the placenta takes over
• glomerulus : the network of blood capillaries surrounded by bowman's capsule
• nephron : functional unit of the kidney
• acrosome : protective outside membrane of the head of the sperm that penetrates the egg
• puberty : when spermatogenesis occurs in males
• sertoli : type of cell that provides nutrients to the sperm and secretes abp
• secretion : transfers material from blood into tubules to eliminate waste