Natural Selection Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. way of hiding by looking the same as the background
  2. 3. receive genes from a parent
  3. 5. characteristic that all members of a species have
  4. 8. specific characteristic of an individual organism
  5. 9. long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  6. 11. group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  7. 12. trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  8. 15. number of individuals with each trait in a population
  9. 16. idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
  10. 17. event or process that leads to a result or change
  11. 18. difference in traits between individual organisms
Down
  1. 2. random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  2. 4. result or change that happens because of an event or process
  3. 6. graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  4. 7. group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
  5. 10. stay alive
  6. 13. related organism from a previous generation
  7. 14. process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  8. 15. type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of