Natural Selection

4. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
7. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
9. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
10. to receive genes from a parent
11. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
12. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
14. an organism produced as a result of reproduction

1. a characteristic that all members of a species have
2. any difference in traits between individual organisms
3. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
5. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
6. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
8. a group of organisms of the same kind, that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
13. an instruction for making a protein molecule