Natural Selection Vocabulary

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