Natural Selection

2. an event or process that leads to a result or change
3. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
6. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
7. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
10. everything living and nonliving that surrounds an organism
11. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
12. any difference in traits between individual organisms
13. an instruction for making a protein molecule
14. an idea about what might happen based on what you already know

1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
4. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
5. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
8. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations