Natural Selection Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 2. An animal that hunts and kill other animals for food.
  2. 4. An animal that is hunted or killed for food.
  3. 6. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time.
  4. 8. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  5. 10. Any difference in traits between idividual organisms.
  6. 13. Everything living and nonliving that surrounds you.
  7. 14. a characteristic that all members of a species have.
  8. 15. to receive genes from a parent.
  9. 17. A long piece of DNA that contains many genes.
  10. 19. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait.
  11. 20. The number of individuals with each trait in a population.
  12. 21. An istruction for making a protein molecule.
  13. 22. A family member from a past generation
  14. 24. A specific characteristic of an individual organism.
  15. 27. A large molecule that preforms improtant functions iside and organim.
  16. 28. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  17. 30. When you blend into your surroundings
  18. 31. An organism produced due to the process of reproduction
  19. 32. A specific form of gene that prvides instuctions for making particular protein molecules.
Down
  1. 1. When the distribustion of traits in a population changes over many generations
  2. 3. Something in the inviroment that effects the chances of survival in the enviroment.
  3. 5. A trait that makes it less likely to survive in a specific enviroment.
  4. 7. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of.
  5. 9. The process in whinch two parents pass their genes on to create and offspring.
  6. 11. A young insect that looks somewhat different from the Adult.
  7. 12. A hypothisis based on what you already know.
  8. 16. A trait that helps an individual survive in a specific inviroment.
  9. 18. A process that leads to a result or change
  10. 23. A group of the same organisms living in the same area.
  11. 25. A group of organisms of the same kind that do not reproduce with any other kind of orgamisms.
  12. 26. All living things
  13. 29. To stay alive