Across
- 2. A following of one thing after another in time
- 3. Part of DNA controlling physical characteristics and growth
- 6. Gene that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
- 10. The people who inhabit a territory or state
- 11. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature
- 12. The immediate descendants of a person or organism
- 14. The remains of a plant or animal from a past geological age
- 15. The science that studies living organisms
- 16. The transfer of alleles of genes from one population to the other
- 18. Scientists who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection
- 20. The process of being or becoming different
- 21. The change in the frequency of genes
- 23. A change or alteration in form or qualities
- 24. Material that carries genetic information in a cell
Down
- 1. A scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
- 2. Taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
- 4. Undergo development
- 5. A living thing that can act or function independently
- 7. A process in which organisms evolve to adapt to environment
- 8. A threadlike strand of DNA that carries genes
- 9. Gene that produces the same phenotype in the organism
- 13. Noticeable variety
- 17. The process of adjusting or conforming to new conditions
- 19. The end of species
- 22. Sequence of events involved in the development of a species