Natural Selection Vocabulary
Across
- 3. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 6. a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 8. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 11. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 12. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 13. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific
- 15. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 16. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
- 17. an event or process that leads to a result or change
Down
- 1. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 2. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
- 4. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 5. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 7. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 9. distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 10. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 14. to receive genes from a parent