Across
- 4. An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of surviving and reproducing in its environment
- 5. The study of similarities and differences among the structures of living species
- 6. Body parts of organisms that are similar in structure and position but different function
- 11. The breeding of organisms for desired characteristics
- 12. Body parts that have lost their original function through evolution
- 13. The science of the development of embryos from fertilization
- 14. The impression of an organism in a rock
Down
- 1. A person who studies plants and animals by observing them
- 2. Body parts that perform a similar function but differ in structure
- 3. An adaption that enables a species to blend in with its environment
- 5. A fossil copy of an organism in a rock
- 7. The resemblance of one species to another species
- 8. Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth
- 9. Occurs when the last individual organism of a species dies
- 10. A slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of species
