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