Natural Selections Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. a group of the same kind of organisms
  2. 3. random change in a gene resulting in a new trait
  3. 5. a shared trait all members of a species have
  4. 11. an animal that is hunted and killed by a predator
  5. 12. when two parents create an offspring
  6. 15. to stay alive
  7. 16. an event/process that leads to a result
  8. 17. an individual's specific characteristic
  9. 18. a young insect that looks different from the adult
  10. 20. molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
  11. 22. when distribution of a trait changes over time
  12. 26. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  13. 27. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  14. 28. living things, plants, animals, and bacteria
  15. 29. everything living surrounding an organism
  16. 30. a trait making something less likely to survive somewhere
  17. 31. a form of a gene that instructs making particular protein molecule
Down
  1. 2. hiding by blending in with your background
  2. 4. a trait that helps something survive
  3. 6. a related organism from a previous generation
  4. 7. an organism resulting in reproduction
  5. 8. something that affects an organisms chance of survival
  6. 9. an idea of what will happen in the future
  7. 10. an animal that hunts and kills others for food
  8. 13. a result/change because of a process/event
  9. 14. to receive genes from a parent
  10. 19. a large molecule that does important things
  11. 21. amount of people who have a trait in a group
  12. 23. a group of the same organisms living together
  13. 24. a graph using bars showing the distribution of characteristics
  14. 25. difference between traits of an organism
  15. 26. group of individuals living at the same time