Natural Selection Vocabulary

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