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