Natural Selection Vocab
Across
- 1. A change in genetic sequence
- 5. Individuals with more favorable characteristics survive more
- 8. Extreme favored traits over intermediate traits
- 9. Genetic diversity decreases and the mean stabilizes on a non-extreme trait
- 12. Individuals with traits on one side of the mean reproduce more
- 14. Some individuals are more likely to survive than others
- 16. An inheritable trait that aids the species in surviving long enough to reproduce
- 17. Any trait affected by two or more genes
Down
- 2. Organisms best suited to their environment pass on their genes
- 3. A measure of the genetic differences that exist within a population
- 4. How well a species survives in its environment
- 6. Evolution in response to another species' evolution
- 7. A change in gene variant frequency, typically happens over a short period of time
- 10. Anything that can affect an organism's ability to achieve reproductive success
- 11. Bacteria evolving to withstand antibiotics
- 13. Traits chosen by people that are considered "desirable", also known as selective breeding
- 15. p+q=1 is the equation for ______________