natural selections

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