Evolution and Natural Selection
Across
- 2. occurs when bacteria change in response to the use of these medicines, making the medicine useless
- 4. the proccess pf reproducing using to organism
- 6. provides a record of how creatures evolved, mostly represented by a "tree of life"
- 13. a permanent change in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene
- 14. a group of single celled micororgansisms that could cause infections an diseases
- 15. when a group of similar species separate to create its own unique characteristics
- 17. the change in frequency of an existing gene variant in the population due to a random event
- 18. actions that help animals survive based on a response to some type of stimulus
- 20. one of two or more DNA seuqnces occuring at a partciluar gene locus
Down
- 1. the process of reproducing using only one organism
- 3. a heritable trait that helps an organism,such as plants or animals, survive and reproduce in its environment
- 5. cells that contain membrane bound organelles
- 7. a very simple microorganism that infects cells and may cause a disease
- 8. the dying out or extermination of a species
- 9. refers to the reduction in genomic variability that occcurs when a small group of individuals separate form a larger population
- 10. the organisms that have most adapted to the environment around them will survive
- 11. differences in traits among individuals of the same kind of living thing
- 12. the movement of genes from one population to another
- 16. a type of structual modifictaion made to a part of the body that helps an organism survive
- 19. organisms that lack membrane bound organelles and other organelles