Bonus point crossword puzzle
Across
- 5. Changes in organisms which are significant enough that, overtime, the newer organisms would be considered an entirely new species.
- 7. The process in which a cell divides into two new daughter cells.
- 8. The actual genes an organism possesses.
- 10. The evolutionary history of an organism.
- 13. The scientific study of heredity.
- 15. Changes in the gene pool of a single population overtime which result in relatively small changes to the organisms in that population.
- 17. Specific characteristics of an individual that are inherited.
- 19. The process by which organisms change overtime.
- 20. The branch of biology that groups and names organisms.
Down
- 1. A diagram that links groups of organisms by showing how evolutionary lines branched off from a common ancestor.
- 2. Internal defects that cause defects in genes.
- 3. The preserved remains or impression of an organism.
- 4. The process by which cells become specialized.
- 6. A group of individuals of the same species occupying a particular geographical error.
- 9. Grouping things into levels based upon similarities.
- 11. Splitting of one species into two or more species.
- 12. Structures seen in an organism that do not serve any known function.
- 14. The delivery of characteristics from parent to offspring.
- 16. When all organisms have died.
- 18. The way an organism looks or the trait the organism possesses.