NATURAL selection

4. / a change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.
6. / an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
8. / organisms better adapted to their environment
9. / developing the theory of evolution by natural selection
12. / describes the evolutionary process where organisms best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

1. / a living thing, such as a plant, animal, fungus, protist, bacteria, or archaea, that is capable of carrying out life's activitie
2. / the natural home or environment where an organism lives
3. / a process where scientists manipulate an organism's DNA to introduce, remove, or alter specific genes
4. / encompasses the practice of cultivating crops and raising livestock to produce food, fiber, and other resources
5. / relating to genes or heredity
7. / an animal that naturally preys on others.
10. / the new organisms that result from the reproductive processes of a parent, either through sexual or asexual reproduction
11. / the process by which humans intentionally select for specific traits in plants and animals, leading to changes in those traits over time