Natural selection Josiah Jones

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