Evolution Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. a heritable trait that increases an organism's chance of survival or reproduction
  2. 3. scientific framework about the changes in traits in a population over time
  3. 6. the total genetic information of all members of a population
  4. 7. the formation of one or more new species from an existing species
  5. 8. a group of organisms that can breed to produce fertile offspring
  6. 12. a drug used to kill bacteria or slow their growth
  7. 14. organisms with traits that are most favorable will survive and reproduce
  8. 15. how eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes
  9. 16. an organism's ability to survive and reproduce
  10. 17. the introduction of genes from one population into the gene pool of another
Down
  1. 2. the process of evolutionary separation
  2. 4. a change in allele frequencies due to random chance
  3. 5. the remains of an organism that lived in a past age
  4. 9. the earliest stage of development for an organism
  5. 10. the role a population plays within a community
  6. 11. the range of possibilities for a trait in a population
  7. 13. an organism's ability to withstand a harmful agent