Natural Selection
Across
- 2. A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are capable of breeding
- 4. To come forth gradually into being
- 10. record The total number of fossils that have been discovered and the information
- 11. A particular section type of people or animals living in an area
- 13. The disguising of a person, animal, or object
- 14. There is a variety in traits, people, etc.
- 16. The state of a species becoming extinct
- 18. reproduction The production of new living organisms by combining genetic information from two individuals of different types
- 19. Any individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, growth, and maintain homeostasis
- 20. A feature of an organism
- 21. A person's child or children
- 22. moths They evolved due to air pollution by industrial melanism
Down
- 1. To come together for breeding
- 3. generations The success of generations continuing
- 5. The difference or deviations from the recognized standard
- 6. The formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution
- 7. finches Birds that defined evolution
- 8. reproduction A type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism
- 9. A organism that changes to fit the environment
- 12. selection The organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
- 15. When a DNA gene changes
- 17. The process of genetic traits moving from parents or ancestors to offspring
- 20. of evolution Change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations