Natural Selection Vocab

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