Applied Genetics

Chapter 10

Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.
Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter.

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Across:

1. Process by which humans choose, as the parents of the next generation, animals or plants with characteristics useful to humankind (7,11)
4. Small circular structure in bacterium used to transfer genes from one species to another (7)
5. Blood clotting agent that haemophiliacs lack (6,5)
6. Genetic material that can be transferred from one species to another by genetic engineering (3)
7. Improvement of a plant or animal characteristic by selective breeding (11)
8. Process by which a piece of DNA is removed from one species and inserted into another (9,8)

Down:

2. Hormone made by human pancreas needed to control the glucose level of blood (7)
3. Term used to describe a micro-organism after the insertion into it of DNA from another species (12)