Natural Selection Crossword
Across
- 2. living things, such as plants, animals and bacteria
- 6. something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
- 7. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
- 12. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 15. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 17. the person who supervises interns during a project
Down
- 1. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. a serious disease caused by parasites spread to humans by mosquitoes
- 4. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 5. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 8. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 9. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein
- 10. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 11. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 13. a related organism from a previous generation
- 14. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
- 16. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 18. a specific characteristic of an individual organism