Natural Selection

3. an event or process that leads to a result or change
5. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
11. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
14. to receive genes from a parent
18. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
19. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
20. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many
21. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
23. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes

1. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
2. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
4. a related organism from a previous generation
6. any difference in traits between individual organisms
7. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
8. the number of individuals with each trait in a population a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
9. a characteristic that all members of a species have
10. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
12. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
13. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
15. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
16. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
17. an instruction for making a protein molecule
22. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group