Intro to Evolution

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Across
  1. 3. Natural selection acts on __.
  2. 4. High rates of population growth results in increased __
  3. 6. Strongly endorsed idea “inheritance of acquired characteristics”
  4. 7. a measure of relative reproductive success in a given environment
  5. 10. who published The Origin of Species in 1859
  6. 12. If certain __ traits lead to increased success in producing offspring... these traits become more common in the population over time.
  7. 16. salmon, coral, and insects are __ species due to their reproductive strategy
  8. 17. where Darwin studies fossils and species
  9. 19. Fitness is determined by __ (best suitability) to a given environment.
  10. 21. Evolutionary change occurs in __.
  11. 22. humans and elephants are __ species due to their reproductive strategy
Down
  1. 1. Natural Selection is __, unequal reproductive success.
  2. 2. All organisms share common __ with other organisms.
  3. 5. Natural selection can only take place if there is __ with genetic basis among individuals in a population.
  4. 8. __ change over time & space.
  5. 9. simultaneously arrived at the theory of natural selection
  6. 11. selection by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding (playing the role of nature).
  7. 13. Some traits are consistently passed on from parent to offspring
  8. 14. geologist who wrote Principles of Geology
  9. 15. source of new alleles
  10. 18. Evolutionary change is __.
  11. 20. Hutton saw how __, repetitive processes of change had shaped Earth over long periods of time