Evolution and Natural Selection
Across
- 8. term that describes what happens to a species that has no longer any known living individuals.
- 9. process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other
- 12. Breeding organisms with specific traits in order to produce offspring with identical traits
- 13. The genetic change in a species over time
- 14. A trait that helps and organism survive and reproduce
- 15. A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved
- 16. Formation of a new species
- 17. A group of similar organisms that can produce offspring
- 18. number of times that an allele occurs in a gene pool compared to the number of alleles in the gene pool
- 19. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
Down
- 1. when two or more species share a common ancestor and become more different over time
- 2. Any differences between individuals of the same species
- 3. a change in the allele frequency of a population as a result of change events instead of natural selection
- 4. when two unrelated organisms start to evolve similar traits because they live in similar environments
- 5. Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry
- 6. movement of alleles from one population to another
- 7. Combined genetic information of all the members of a particular population
- 10. A process in which individuals that have a certain inherited traits survive and reproduce at higher rates
- 11. Remnant of a structure that may have had an important function in a species ancestor but has no clear function now