new years evolution resolution

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Across
  1. 5. an ancient altruistic amoeba
  2. 6. these shorten as they divide
  3. 9. was killed by kindness
  4. 10. providing raw material for evolution
  5. 12. business rivalries, sporting events, chess matches, ect...
  6. 13. one sided food chain interaction
  7. 14. inevitable and often causes grey hair and wrinkles in humans
  8. 16. the capacity for change
  9. 18. a way to test hypotheses, for short
  10. 20. an all pervading organism commonly found in yogurt
  11. 21. culmination of four years of learning at kcollege
  12. 22. unchanging or steady
  13. 23. small slippery 'sneaker male'
  14. 25. sympatric, allopatric, parapatric, peripatric
  15. 29. converting food into energy
  16. 32. biologist with an appearance in the epstein files
  17. 33. an island in georgia crawling with opossums
  18. 34. driving antimicrobial resistance
  19. 35. bird courtship arena
  20. 36. how to ensure your genes will stay in the population
  21. 39. blood is thicker than water
  22. 43. mourning attire, mating flair
  23. 44. evolve or go extinct
  24. 45. the clue itself
Down
  1. 1. chemical tags on DNA that effect expression
  2. 2. fundamental unit of all living things
  3. 3. journal article abbreviation
  4. 4. guppies prefer orange males because they eat orange fruit
  5. 7. a linked evolutionary dance
  6. 8. Huxley coined this term in his 1942 book
  7. 11. a 'head start' provided by your parents, briefly
  8. 15. close relatives
  9. 16. an actor's character in an evolutionary play
  10. 17. consistent phenotype in a variable environment
  11. 19. tropical dwellers known for their seed struggles
  12. 24. important parental provision
  13. 26. this over that
  14. 27. Pink Floyd song title, "ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day"
  15. 28. differential reproductive success
  16. 30. often 1:1, explained by fisher
  17. 31. to defect or to cooperate?
  18. 36. byproducts of aerobic metabolism
  19. 37. a nightmarish building that sucks the life out of your soul
  20. 38. a way to connect ideas that are loose in your brain
  21. 40. theory of evolution by natural selection
  22. 41. sacrifice of one aspect to gain in another
  23. 42. egg and sperm
  24. 46. a fruity wasp hospice, otherwise commonly associated with newton