This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to the chromosomal basis of inheritance. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary!

This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary in both the terms and their descriptions, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course:

meiosis, crossing over, recombination, deletion, duplication, inversion, translocation, monosomy, trisomy, autosome, sex chromosome, locus, genetic map, X inactivation, fertilization, mosaicism, Barr body, genomic imprinting, linked genes, sex-linked gene, SRY, extranuclear genes

Crosswords can be used as individual practice at home, bellringer or closure work, or even turned into a review game race (ex. students on a team must take turns writing in a word - fastest team wins!).

Answer key included.

For single classroom only; not to be shared publicly.

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