Natural Selection Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. a young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult
  2. 7. to stay alive
  3. 8. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
  4. 9. trait a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  5. 12. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  6. 14. to receive genes from a parent
  7. 18. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  8. 19. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  9. 22. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  10. 23. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  11. 25. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  12. 27. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
  13. 29. a characteristic that all members of a species has
  14. 30. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
  15. 31. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
  16. 32. any difference in traits between individual organisms
Down
  1. 1. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  2. 2. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  3. 3. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
  4. 4. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
  5. 6. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  6. 10. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  7. 11. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
  8. 13. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  9. 15. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
  10. 16. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  11. 17. an event or process that leads to a result or change
  12. 20. a related organism from previous generation
  13. 21. something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
  14. 24. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  15. 26. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
  16. 28. an organism produced as a result of reproduction