Natural selection crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation
- 5. Is a substance or object in the environment required by an organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction.
- 8. The movement of genes into or out of a population
- 9. A state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
- 11. A change in genetic mutation
- 13. The Natural creation of living organisms
- 14. The process of organisms changing over time. Organisms with traits better suited to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.
- 15. A famous biologist and naturalist who is known for his contributions to the study of evolution through the process of natural selection.
- 16. A characteristic belonging to a population or organism.
- 17. An animals ability to hide from predators
- 18. The change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in a population due to random chance.
- 19. The difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations.
- 20. A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.
Down
- 1. Resemblence between two organisms
- 2. An organism's ability to survive
- 4. A process in which humans choose specific traits they want and breed organisms together for those specific traits.
- 6. The process by which species adapt over time in response to their changing environment.
- 7. An animal that prays on other animals
- 10. The way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn
- 12. Behaviors an organism develops as a result of experience