Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 4. Organisms better adapted to their environment exhibit a higher likelihood of persevering and transmitting their advantageous traits to successive generations.
  2. 6. The specific place or type of environment where a particular plant, animal, or organism naturally lives and thrives.
  3. 7. Change over time in the inherited characteristics of populations over successive generations.
Down
  1. 1. Observable differences or diversity in traits among individuals within a population of a particular species.
  2. 2. Process by which genetic information, encoded in DNA, is passed from one generation to the next.
  3. 3. Individuals are those better adapted to the challenges of their surroundings will survive, reproduce & pass on traits in generations.
  4. 5. Process by which organisms evolve and develop traits that enhance their ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment.