The mRNA: The Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. change through time
  2. 8. a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment
  3. 12. a statistical test used to compare observed results with expected results
  4. 13. structures that don't really do much in a body
  5. 14. evolution on grand scale
  6. 18. slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species
  7. 19. visual appearance and configuration of an organism
  8. 22. Genetic variation stored in population
  9. 23. joint change of two or more species in close interaction
  10. 24. disappearance of an entire species
  11. 26. protein in charge of the hindlimbs in mice
  12. 27. Structures that have similar functions but different forms
  13. 28. two or more related species becoming more and more dissimilar
Down
  1. 1. Darwinian Medicine
  2. 2. sticklebacks with present pelvic spines
  3. 3. Father of Modern Taxonomy
  4. 5. evolution on a small scale
  5. 6. experiment performed by Esther and Joshua Lederberg in 1952
  6. 7. imaginary animals used for exploring taxonomic classification and evolution
  7. 9. reason for extinction that is caused by volcanic eruption, dramatic change in climate, tsunami
  8. 10. defined as the niche of a species in the absence of competition
  9. 11. crossing over
  10. 12. monophyletic group
  11. 14. Changes in the information contained in genetic material
  12. 15. falls outside the clade being studied but is closely related to that clade
  13. 16. the ship Charles Darwin used to travel around the world
  14. 17. the relationship of a species with the components of an ecosystem
  15. 20. type of adaptation that focuses on the way an organism acts or behaves
  16. 21. branching points on a tree, represents speciation or lineage splitting event
  17. 25. belief that the creation story in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible book of Genesis is literally true