Natural and Artificial Selection
Across
- 6. To get the desired traits of a German Shepard you need to have parents that are homozygous ______ for the traits.
- 9. Animals best suited to their environment will survive and reproduce is called _____ selection
- 10. Industrialization caused pollution changing the color of ______ moths.
- 12. Jaguars have a ________ variation of jaw size.
- 14. Mule deer have adapted to ______change by having hollow hair.
- 16. Due to an increase in heat a camel has an adaptive change of long _____
- 17. ______ influence breeding when its artificial selection
- 18. Crappie have adapted due to changes in _________.
- 21. In many animals breeders use artificial _______ to select and breed certain animals and traits.
- 22. One environmental change that lead to giraffes changing was a loss of ________.
- 24. ______ breeding is a way to yield the desired traits in an organism.
- 25. In the Gros Michel Bananas there was an unwanted consequence when a _____disease wiped out the population.
Down
- 1. Darwin's _____ survived and reproduced based off of the availability of food sources and seed size.
- 2. The lizard can ______ by changing the colors to blend into different environments.
- 3. Salmon adapt to help balance their salt water levels by ______.
- 4. The arctic fox adapted to the snow by changing its fur color to hide from ____
- 5. _____ selection causes species to change over time.
- 7. The pink salmon has evolved due to _______ change.
- 8. natural selection made ____ rabbits that live in the tundra easy to hunt.
- 11. The buckeye butterfly adapted to look like it had ____ on its wings.
- 13. A ____ is a cross between a donkey and a horse
- 15. Bull (Belgian blue bone) is a breed of cow that has a ________ that breeders choose to breed to get the double muscle gene.
- 19. Carrots have been artificially selected to get rid of all the ____
- 20. Domesticated rabbits can be breed for traits like color or more ____
- 23. The process of humans breeding to select traits is called _____ selection.