Mutations and Evolutions Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Condensed or tightened form of DNA - forms during cell division.
  2. 8. Scientific principles that describe relationships between _________, gravity/forces, and distance have not changed over millions of years.
  3. 9. Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
  4. 10. Full term for DNA.
  5. 13. Created natural selection theory by studying finches on the Galapagos Islands.
  6. 14. Genetically modified organism.
  7. 15. For organisms to ______, they would have to change.
Down
  1. 1. Mutation that occurs when Part of the chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome.
  2. 2. Enables geneticists and medical researchers to edit parts of the genome by removing, adding or altering sections of the DNA sequence.
  3. 3. Process by which different organisms developed from earlier forms
  4. 5. Determined which animals lived and died. Those that adapted to the new environment survived and became different from their mainland relatives.
  5. 6. Adaptations result from __________ in an organism’s DNA.
  6. 7. Changes the order of a single DNA strand.
  7. 11. Absence of pigmentation within the skin.
  8. 12. Well-tested explanation that has evidence from many facts, observations, and hypotheses.