Across
- 2. contains biotic and abiotic variables
- 5. effects masked by a dominant gene
- 11. an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
- 13. the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
- 14. study of heredity and the variation of inherited traits
Down
- 1. proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence to start an investigation
- 3. variant of a gene that expresses itself strongly
- 4. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
- 6. a species' average population size in a particular habitat
- 7. predator that is at the top of the foodchain
- 8. a group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time
- 9. an animal that naturally preys on others
- 10. shows the relationship between species
- 12. a change in the DNA sequence of an organism