Adaptations & Natural Selection
Across
- 3. How organisms that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce
- 4. A change in structure, function, or behavior in a species that helps the species better survive
- 7. An organism's ability to pass its genetic material to its offspring
- 9. An organism from which two or more different species evolved
- 10. Similar features in different species that have the same function but different structures and origins
- 13. Characteristics of an organism
Down
- 1. Change occurring outside the body to help with survival
- 2. A body part that has lost some or all of its original function over time
- 5. How an organism acts to help with survival
- 6. Similar physical features in organisms that share a common ancestor, but the features have different functions
- 8. Change in the characteristics of a species over several generations
- 11. Change occurring outside the body to help with survival
- 12. Difference in DNA in an individual within a population