Natural Selection

3. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
4. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
5. a characteristic that all members of a species have
8. something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
9. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
11. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
12. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
16. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generation
17. a group of organisms of the same kind that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
18. an y difference in traits between individual organisms
19. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
20. a related organism from a pervious generation
21. an instruction for making a protein molecule

1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
2. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
6. everything(living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
7. to receive genes from a parent
10. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive
13. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside an organism
14. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
15. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of