Natural Selection Crossword
Across
- 5. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 6. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 9. an event or process that leads to a result or change
- 11. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 13. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 14. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
- 15. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
Down
- 1. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 4. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 7. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 8. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 10. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 12. a specific characteristic of an individual organism