Adaptation and Diversity Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. Food products that have been genetically engineered.
  2. 12. Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structure.
  3. 13. when the last individual organism of a species dies.
  4. 15. An adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment.
  5. 17. the change overtime in populations of related organisms.
  6. 19. An inherited trait that helps a species survive in its environment.
Down
  1. 1. are body parts that have lost their original function through evolution.
  2. 2. A fossil that has characteristics of both ancestral organisms and organisms that evolved later.
  3. 3. The different forms of a gene are called alleles.
  4. 4. The resemblance of one species to another.
  5. 5. The biological and chemical methods that change the arrangement of DNA that makes up a gene.
  6. 6. The process by which individuals with variations that help them survive in their environments live longer.
  7. 8. A permanent change in the sequence of DNA.
  8. 9. Body parts or structures that were inherited by two or more species from a common ancestor
  9. 10. breeding The selection and breeding of organisms with desired traits.
  10. 11. How a trait appears, or is expressed.
  11. 14. the study of similarities and differences among structures of living and fossil species.
  12. 15. Thread-like structures that contain genetic information that controls traits.
  13. 16. The two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait.
  14. 18. Slight differences in inherited traits among individual members of a species.