Evolution Review
Across
- 2. differences within a trait among those in a population
- 5. trait that increases an organism's survival in a particular environment
- 8. overall idea that populations' adaptations change over many generations
- 9. type of selection in which the environment chooses best adapted traits
- 10. source of variation, random changes in DNA
- 12. similar structures because of a common ancestor
- 15. ____ tree shows evolutionary relationships
Down
- 1. type of evolution that occurs with related species in different environment
- 3. observed natural selection of related species on the Galapagos because of variety of environments
- 4. type of evolution in which two species evolve together
- 6. combination of adaptations that allow for a species to survive AND reproduce
- 7. evolution occurring slowly over time with small changes, opposite of punctuated equilibrium
- 11. type of evolution that occurs in unrelated species in similar environments
- 13. structures of similar functions as a result of convergent evolution such as webbed feet
- 14. structures that have diminished in size because of un-use like tailbone in humans
- 16. family proposed group that humans belonged to that broke from other primates