Across
- 2. Organs that are similar in different organism and are thought to show evolutionary relationships.
- 6. The theory that suggests that the currently observable processes that occurred at the same rate in the past as they do in the present.
- 8. The process by which some phenotypes within a species become more common than others because of variations that lead to increased survival rates.
- 10. An ancestral organism whose offspring diverged into two or more species.
- 11. A structure that seems to have no function in an organism and is thought to be left over from the evolutionary process.
Down
- 1. The idea that organisms can slowly change over time into other kinds of organisms.
- 3. anatomy The study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species.
- 4. The human practice of breeding organisms that have desirable traits and variations.
- 5. The preserved remains or trace of an organism that lived in the past.
- 7. Darwin’s idea that all organisms come from common ancestors and change a little with each generation.
- 9. A heritable trait that improves the reproductive success of an organism.
