Natural Selection

2. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
5. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
6. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
7. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
9. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
11. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
15. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
16. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
17. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food

1. trait a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. a characteristic that all members of a species have
4. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
8. any difference in traits between individual organisms
10. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
12. an instruction for making a protein molecule
13. trait a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
14. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait