Natural Selection

4. a group of individuals born and living around the same time
5. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
7. a group with the same organisms living in the same area
9. a group of organisms of the same kind do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
13. everything that surrounds an organism
16. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
17. a result or change that happens because of an event
21. to stay alive
24. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
25. a change to a gene that can result in a new trait
26. a graph that shows how things are distributed within a group
27. to receive genes from a parent
28. a related organism from a previous generation
29. a characteristic that all members of a species have
30. any difference in traits between individual organisms
31. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
32. an organism that was produced from reproduction

1. an instruction for making a protein molecule
2. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
3. a large type of molecule that does important functions inside organisms
6. a trait that makes an individual have a harder time surviving
8. a gene that gives instructions for making a protein molecule
10. an event or process that leads to a result or change
11. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
12. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
14. a young being that looks different from the adult
15. a trait that helps an individual survive
18. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
19. an idea of what will happen based on what you know
20. something in an environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
22. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
23. the process where a distribution of traits in a population changes over time