new years evolution resolution

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