Natural Selection
Across
- 2. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 3. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 4. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
- 6. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 13. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
- 14. to receive genes from a parent
- 15. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- 17. a related organism from a previous generation
Down
- 1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 5. a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 6. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
- 7. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 8. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
- 10. any difference in traits between individual organism
- 11. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
- 12. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 16. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism