Natural Selection
Across
- 3. the process through which individuals in a population with certain inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than individuals with less favorable traits in a specific environment
- 5. the fraction of the whole
- 6. the evolution of two species in response to each other, resulting in reciprocal or “matching” adaptations
- 7. the chance that a specific outcome will occur out of a total number of outcomes
- 8. an inherited trait evolved through natural selection that makes a population well suited to living and reproducing in its environment
- 9. to evolve a trait, through natural selection, that makes a population well suited to surviving and reproducing in its environment
Down
- 1. the inherited changes that occur in a population over time
- 2. differences in the inherited traits of different individuals
- 4. a characteristic of an organism
- 7. group of individuals of the same species that live and reproduce in the same place