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