Natural Selection Vocabulary

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