Evolution Crossword Puzzle!

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Across
  1. 7. Proposed simple organisms can develop into complex organisms over time
  2. 8. Preserved remains of an ancient organism
  3. 9. Natural breeding and the strongest survive
  4. 13. Any change to genetic material
  5. 14. A naturalist who developed the evolution theory aboard the Beagle
  6. 15. What determines how your cells act
  7. 16. The struggle among living things for food, water, and shelter
Down
  1. 1. Differences in ones traits to another in a species
  2. 2. A natural process in which something takes place
  3. 3. only individuals with a desired trait are bred by humans in hope that future generations will inherit the trait
  4. 4. Producing more offspring than can possibly survive
  5. 5. The theory that species change over many generations and become better adapted to new conditions
  6. 6. A Woman known for finding fossils and thought themself to reconstruct the bodies of fossilized creatures
  7. 10. Created the first system for classifying and naming living things
  8. 11. Islands where Darwin developed the evolution theory and studied finches
  9. 12. Young lawyer who studied natural rock layers and fossils