Activate 2 Adaptation and Inheritance

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Across
  1. 2. A characteristic or feature that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment (Starts with A, 10 letters)
  2. 3. Variation that is passed down from parents to offspring through genetic information (Starts with I, 9 letters)
  3. 5. The variety of different species living within a particular ecosystem or on the entire planet (Starts with B, 12 letters)
  4. 10. The struggle between organisms for limited resources like food water shelter or mates (Starts with C, 11 letters)
  5. 12. Variation that is caused by an organisms surroundings and lifestyle rather than its genes (Starts with E, 13 letters)
  6. 14. The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and pass on their genes (Starts with N, 16 letters)
Down
  1. 1. The differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species (Starts with V, 9 letters)
  2. 4. The process by which genetic information is passed from parents to their offspring (Starts with I, 11 letters)
  3. 6. A group of similar organisms that are able to breed together to produce fertile offspring (Starts with S, 7 letters)
  4. 7. A coiled structure of DNA found in the nucleus of a cell carrying genetic information (Starts with C, 10 letters)
  5. 8. What happens when there are no individuals of a species left alive anywhere on Earth (Starts with E, 10 letters)
  6. 9. A small section of DNA on a chromosome that contains the instructions for a specific characteristic (Starts with G, 4 letters)
  7. 11. A sudden change in the DNA sequence that can lead to a new characteristic or variation (Starts with M, 8 letters)
  8. 13. The large molecule locked inside chromosomes that contains the genetic code for all living things (Starts with D, 3 letters)
  9. 15. The gradual change in a species over millions of years through the process of natural selection (Starts with E, 9 letters)