Across
- 6. A type of natural selection where individuals with traits that make them more likely to attract mates and reproduce are favored.
- 7. Characteristic shaped by natural selection that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
- 8. The process where individuals with advantageous traits survive and reproduce more successfully.
- 9. A trait that is NOT encoded in gamete DNA
- 10. The extent to which our genes give us an advantage in survival or reproduction.
- 11. Populations from the same ancestor become increasingly different over time.
Down
- 1. Differences in traits among individuals within the same population.
- 2. The maximum population size an environment can sustainably support.
- 3. When organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support.
- 4. An environmental factor that influences which traits are advantageous.
- 5. A change in the DNA sequence that can create new alleles.