Evolution Crossword
Across
- 2. Morphological adaptation where one species evolves to resemble another species for protection/advantages
- 4. Famous for his ideas about population growth
- 5. The remains of the dead organism
- 7. Theory of hutton's time was that all the rocks on earth were formed by sediments during the great flood
- 8. Diversification of a species into a number of different species
- 12. Known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics
- 13. Process where organisms hot related have similar traits from adapting in similar environments
- 14. Anatomically similar structure inherited from a common ancestor
- 16. Reduced form of a functional structure that indicates shared ancestry
- 17. Morphological adaptations that allow organisms to blend into their surroundings
- 18. A population of organisms separated from exchanging genetic material with the same species
- 19. Random change in allelic frequencies in a population
- 20. Inherited characteristic of species that develop over time in response to an environmental factor
Down
- 1. Measure of a trait’s relative contribution to the following generation
- 3. Studied specimen, which led him to his theory of evolution
- 6. Different species live in the same area but they can't interbreed
- 9. Structure that has the same function but different construction and wasn't inherited from a common ancestor
- 10. Selective breeding of organisms selected for certain traits to produce certain offspring
- 11. Theory of evolution developed by Darwin; based on four ideas
- 15. Heredity changes in a group of living organisms over time