Across
- 5. reproductive success and reflects how well an organism is adapted to its environment.
- 7. something in the environment that is needed by other orgainsms
- 8. a reproductive barrier that prevents interbreeding
- 9. sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events
- 12. the physical separation due to geographic barriers
- 16. he process by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding
- 17. the transfer of genetic material from one population to another
- 19. phenotype is favored over other phenotypes
- 20. the set of all genes
Down
- 1. the loss of genetic variation in a population
- 2. an organism that looks like another object
- 3. how common an allele is in a population
- 4. the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
- 6. the change in the frequency of an existing gene variant in a population due to random chance
- 10. extreme values for a trait are favored
- 11. when species are reproductively isolated from others due to differences in behavior
- 13. the evolutionary process whereby an organism becomes better able to live in its habitat or habitats
- 14. when you come to
- 15. when you leave
- 18. a group of organisms