Natural Selection Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  2. 6. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  3. 7. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  4. 9. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  5. 10. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  6. 11. an instruction for making a protein molecule
Down
  1. 1. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  2. 2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  3. 3. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  4. 4. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  5. 5. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  6. 8. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment