Natural Selection Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A segment of DNA that carries the genetic information that controls traits.
  2. 3. A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
  3. 4. an organism combines the genetic information from each of its parents and is genetically unique
  4. 5. A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes.
  5. 7. Changes in the heritable traits of a population of organisms as successive generations replace one another.
  6. 9. a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection
  7. 12. Change in an organism that occurs when DNA is damaged or changed.
Down
  1. 2. The process by which organisms best adapted to their environment survive & reproduce to pass on favorable traits to their offspring.
  2. 6. one parent copies itself to form a genetically identical offspring.
  3. 8. A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its natural environment.
  4. 10. In his own day, his theory of evolution was generally rejected as implausible, unsubstantiated, or heretical.
  5. 11. Occurs when more than one individual or population tries to make use of the same resource.