Vocab Chapters 5-6
Across
- 4. THe process by which individuals move from one population to another and thereby after the genetic composition of both populations
- 5. A random change in the genetic code produced by a mistake in the copying process
- 6. The complete set of genes in an individual
- 8. A trait that improves an individual’s fitness
- 11. The generic process by which one chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome during reproductive cell division
- 14. When a population becomes larger than the environment’s carrying capacity
- 15. A set of traits expressed by an individual
- 16. The death of the last member of a species
- 18. Evolution that gives rise to new species, genera, families, classes, or phyla
- 19. A physical location on the chromosome within each cell of an organism
Down
- 1. An individual’s ability to survive and reproduce
- 2. The individuals that belong to the same species and live in a given area at a particular time
- 3. A Group of spatially distinct populations that are connect by occasional movements of individuals between them
- 4. An organism produced by copying genes from a species with a desirable trait and inserting them into another species
- 7. Areas of the world in which a s[species lives
- 9. Strips of a natural habitat that connect populations
- 10. All of the populations of organisms within a given area
- 12. A change in the genetic composition of a population over time
- 13. A rapid decline in a population due to death
- 17. Evolution below the species level