Natural Selection Vocabulary words

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