Natural Sections

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