NATURAL SELECTION

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Across
  1. 5. An English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
  2. 8. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
  3. 10. Populations of living organisms adapt and change
  4. 11. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region
  5. 12. An animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
  6. 13. A person's child or children.
  7. 14. Characteristics, qualities, or tendencies that someone or something has
  8. 15. The art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock
Down
  1. 1. Humans choose which traits are passed on in a population
  2. 2. Organisms best adjusted to their environment are the most successful in surviving and reproducing
  3. 3. Changing to better suit your surroundings
  4. 4. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
  5. 6. Units of heredity that carry instructions from parents to offspring
  6. 7. The process of directly altering an organism's DNA to introduce new traits or modify existing ones
  7. 9. Animals that hunt, kill, and eat other animals to survive.