Natural Selection Crossword

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