Natural Selection
Across
- 4. Selection Selection by humans for breeding of useful traits from the natural variation among different organisms
- 6. An allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present
- 7. Selection A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
- 9. Describes a trait that covers over, or dominates, another form of that trait.
- 10. Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
- 11. An alternative form of a gene.
Down
- 1. change in a DNA sequence that affects genetic information
- 2. Darwin English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
- 3. Islands Chain of islands near South America where Darwin developed his theory of natural selection by studying the unique life there.
- 5. The gradual change in a species over time
- 8. A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
- 10. The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past