Natural Selection Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  2. 3. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
  3. 7. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  4. 10. a traitthat makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  5. 11. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
  6. 13. to receive genes from a parent
  7. 14. a characteristic that all members of a species have
  8. 15. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  9. 18. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  10. 19. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  11. 21. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  12. 22. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  13. 24. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  14. 25. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
Down
  1. 1. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
  2. 4. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  3. 5. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
  4. 6. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
  5. 8. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  6. 9. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  7. 12. to stay alive
  8. 16. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
  9. 17. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  10. 20. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
  11. 21. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  12. 23. an event or process that leads to a result or change