Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 1. Trait-contains DNA that has been altered using genetic engineering.
  2. 3. modified -an animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
  3. 4. product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents.
  4. 6. Finches-Darwin studied finches on the Galapagos Island
  5. 7. Breeding-The process by which humans choose a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits
  6. 9. a self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.
  7. 11. Selection- The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
  8. 13. Traits- Characteristics that are passed on to you (inherited) from your parents
  9. 16. individual animal, plant or single-celled life form.
  10. 17. unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
  11. 18. of the fittest in biology-the continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution.
  12. 19. Law-a system of law based on a close observation of human nature, and based on values intrinsic to human nature that can be deduced and applied independent of positive law
  13. 20. Beagle-Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class
Down
  1. 2. success and reflects how well an organism is adapted to its environment.
  2. 5. of numerous passerine songbirds (families Fringillidae, Estrildidae, Emberizidae, and Cardinalidae) having a short stout usually conical bill adapted for crushing seeds.
  3. 8. The surroundings or condition in which a person,animal or plant lives
  4. 10. A body part,feature, or behavior that helps a living thing survive and function better in its
  5. 12. living thing made up of one or more cells and able to carry on the activities of life (as using energy, growing, or reproducing) organism.
  6. 14. Darwin-Born in England (1809-1882)
  7. 15. distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.