Evidence of Evolution

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Across
  1. 1. In a given environment, having a particular trait can make individuals more or less likely to survive and have successful offspring. So, some individuals leave more offspring than others do
  2. 4. The adjustment to an environment
  3. 5. The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock
  4. 7. Describes a character that is shared by a group of species because it is inherited from a common ancestor
  5. 10. More offspring than possible to survive
  6. 11. The study of ways that multicellular organisms develop from embryos
  7. 12. Different forms of inherited traits
Down
  1. 2. A change in the inherited characteristics of a population from one generation to the next
  2. 3. The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less well adapted individuals do; a theory to explain the mechanism of evolution
  3. 6. All fossils known to science make up____
  4. 8. The study of anatomy and genetic changes of the anatomy
  5. 9. The study of the locations of organisms around the world