Natural Selections Crossword
Across
- 1. similar organims that dont reproduce with another group
- 8. a type of large molecule that performs important functions
- 12. stay alive
- 13. animals that are hunted by another
- 15. everything that surrounds an organism
- 18. two parents passing on their genes to their offspring
- 21. living things
- 23. event or process that leads to a result
- 24. random changes to a gene that occasionally results in a new traits
- 25. a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 27. trait distributions in a population that changes over time
- 30. to receive genes from a parent
- 31. traits that makes it less likely to survive
- 32. graphs that use bars to show how characteristics are distributed
Down
- 2. a long piece of of DNA with many genes
- 3. specific characteristic
- 4. difference in triats between individuals
- 5. something in environment that affects chance of survival
- 6. group of individuals born and living at the same time
- 7. specific form of a gene that provides instrutions for making a protein molecule
- 9. organism living in the same area
- 10. organism produced from reproduction
- 11. related organism from a previous generation
- 14. result or change that happens because of an event
- 16. number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 17. idea on what might happen, based on prior knowlegde
- 19. a characteristic that helps an individual survive
- 20. type of molecule genes and chromosomes are made of
- 22. young insect that looks visually different from the adult
- 26. way of hiding in the background
- 28. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 29. animals that hunt and kills others