Evolutionary History
Across
- 4. a group of the same type of organisms living in the same environment
- 7. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- 8. anything (living and non-living) that surrounds an organism
- 10. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 11. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 12. a random change to a gene that results in a new trait
Down
- 1. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 5. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 6. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
- 9. a specific characteristic of an individual organism