Natural Selection Crossword
Across
- 5. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of producing fertile offspring
- 8. a bunch of genes inside of an interbreeding population
- 10. a type of reproductive barrier that prevent interbreeding through seasonal separation
- 12. the process where organisms that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
- 13. a reproduction barrier where different species may live in the same area, but some things prevent them from interbreeding
- 15. an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in a certain habitat
Down
- 1. a type of reproductive barrier that prevents mating due to geographic changes the separate the species' population
- 2. a type of reproductive barrier that prevents mating because of behavioral adaptations
- 3. the study of distribution of species and ecosystems throughout space and time
- 4. a process in which an organism changes to fit and survive in its environment
- 6. the appearance of an organism in more than one certain color or form
- 7. the form of new and distinct species in the process of evolution
- 9. a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreed together
- 11. the relative frequency of an allele on a genetic locus in a population.
- 14. the process by which scientists believe multiple organisms and developed from other organisms in the past