Evolution Terminology Crossword
Across
- 1. the method or result of concealing personal from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings
- 4. reproduction/ the process in nature that only the organisms’ best adapted to their environments tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations while those less adapted die off
- 5. adaptations/ an animal forms a structure to help it adapt to it's surroundings
- 7. inherited characteristics that increase an organisms chance of survival
- 8. the similarities of one species to another which protects one or both.
- 10. that organisms change over time proposed by Darwin
- 13. Selection/selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms
- 14. changes in a special to allow them to survive
Down
- 2. of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
- 3. drift/ random change in allele frequencies that occurs in small populations
- 6. adaptations/ an organism or systemic response to an individual to a specific environment to sustain homeostasis
- 9. periodic movement and return of animals from one place to another
- 11. Selection/process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and produce successfully
- 12. structures/ structures that serve no useful function in an organism
- 13. structures/ structures of different species having similar or corresponding function but not from the same evolutionary origin