Evolution

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Across
  1. 3. similarity of function and superficial resemblance of structures that have different origins.
  2. 4. two or more descendant species that have become more and more dissimilar in terms of forms and structures.
  3. 6. two anatomical structures or behavioral traits within different organisms which originated from a structure or trait of their common ancestral organism.
  4. 9. the branch of biology that deals with the geographical distribution of plants and animals.
  5. 11. the process whereby distantly related organisms independently evolve similar traits to adapt to similar necessities.
Down
  1. 1. Living things that are capable of reacting to stimuli, reproduction, growth, and homeostasis.
  2. 2. the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.
  3. 5. various cells, tissues, and organs in a body which no longer function in the same way the ancestral form did,
  4. 7. a change in the DNA sequence of an organism.
  5. 8. selection, the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change.
  6. 10. flow, the introduction of genetic material by interbreeding from one population of a species to another.