biodiversity
Across
- 2. the first evolutionist to believe that organisms change over time.
- 3. evolution an increase in the difference among de scendants of a single ancestral species as time passes
- 6. giant reptiles that ruled the earth during the jurassic period under mesozoic era.
- 7. structures structures in different organisms that are similar In function but different in origin
- 9. evolution an increase in similarities among species derived from different ancestors as a result of similar adaptation to similar environment
- 11. is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level.
- 15. relating to or denoting the earliest eon of the earth's history, preceding the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon.
- 17. remains as once living things including bones, shell, teeth and also faces
- 18. structures parts of different organisms that are similar in structure but serve different functions
- 19. ability to survive and produce offsprings
Down
- 1. the era between the Precambrian eon and the Mesozoic era, or the system of rocks deposited during it.
- 4. species change over time
- 5. differences in traits of organisms in a population
- 8. the process by which an organism produces offspring and thus perpetuate the species
- 10. ability of an or to adjust and thrive in a given environment.
- 12. a segment of DNA or RNA that codes for protein or RNA, a molecular unit of hereditary trait.
- 13. relating to or denoting the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic eras, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
- 14. meaning "new life", also known as the Age of Mammals, because the extinction of many groups allowed mammals to greatly diversify so that large mammals dominated the Earth.
- 16. an invertibrate, it lived in a shallow marine environment during ordovician and silurian period.
- 20. this theory of lamarck states that organism change in response to the environment