Natural Sections
Across
- 2. An organism produced as a result of reproduction
- 7. To receive genes from a parent
- 8. A specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 11. A young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult
- 13. The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 14. A group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 17. Living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
- 18. Any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 24. A way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 26. Molecule A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 27. An event or process that leads to a result or change
- 29. An idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 31. A characteristic that all members of a species have
- 32. A group of the same type of organism living in the same area
Down
- 1. A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. A group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
- 4. An animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
- 5. A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 6. The Number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 9. A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 10. A graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
- 12. A related organism from a previous generation.
- 15. Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 16. To stay alive
- 19. A result or change that happens because of an event or process
- 20. A type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
- 21. An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- 22. The process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
- 23. An instruction for making a protein molecule
- 25. Something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
- 28. A specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
- 30. A long piece of DNA that contains many genes