Evolution and Community

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Across
  1. 2. Proposed the concept of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution and as a way to explain the great variety of living things
  2. 5. Process by which new species are generated
  3. 7. an organism's use of resources and its functional role in a community
  4. 8. Process by which traits that improve an organism's chances for survival and reproduction are passed on more frequently to future generations than those that do not
  5. 10. Heritable trait that increases an individual's fitness
  6. 11. Can give rise to genetic variations among individuals
  7. 12. A sequence of DNA that codes for a particular trait
Down
  1. 1. Something that is passed from parent to offspring
  2. 3. Disappearance of a species from Earth
  3. 4. Changes of population gene pool over time
  4. 6. The ability to survive and reproduce under changing environmental conditions
  5. 9. Describes how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment