Natural Selection Vocabulary words

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