Lesson 24/25 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Individuals with certain inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than individuals with less favorable traits.
  2. 3. Natural selection for ________ ___________: When natural selection favors traits that cause populations to survive and adapt to a _______ __________
  3. 7. Natural selection for ________: When natural selection favors traits that help organisms survive
  4. 8. the evolution of two species in response to each other, resulting in reciprocal or “matching” adaptations
  5. 10. Inherited trait evolved through natural selection that makes a population well suited to living and reproducing in its environment
  6. 11. Differences in the inherited traits of different individuals.
Down
  1. 1. To evolve a trait through natural selection that makes a population well suited to surviving and reproducing in its environment
  2. 4. Natural selection for ________: When natural selection favors traits that help organisms find mates and reproduce.
  3. 5. A group of individuals of the same species that live and reproduce in an area.
  4. 6. Inherited changes that occur in a population over time.
  5. 9. A characteristic of an organism