Across
- 2. any one egg can fuse with any one sperm'
- 4. transfer of alleles between population (usually through migration)
- 6. common ancestors have same master genes
- 7. distribution of lifeforms over geographical areas
- 11. example is a footprint or faeces
- 14. random fluctuations in allele frequency
- 15. comparing rock strata to other fossils of known ages
- 17. how homologous chromosomes are placed and positioned in the cell
- 18. these structures have similar features and functionality but are unrelated
- 19. comparing homologous and analogous structures
- 20. an event that occurs in which population size is severely reduced (could be from a natural disaster)
- 22. large scale extinctions, following changes in selection pressures
- 23. occurs in prophase I of meiosis
Down
- 1. pattern of biological change that results in similar anatomy even though the species is of a different evolutionary background
- 3. these structures have similar anatomy different functionality and same evolutionary origin
- 5. average rate of natural loss of a species
- 8. radioactive carbon is used to date fossils
- 9. pattern of biological change that results in different functional anatomy even though the species is from the same lineage
- 10. small group of individuals break away from the main population and colonize a new habitat
- 12. entire organisms decays but leaves external/internal surface
- 13. biology common ancestors have common master genes
- 16. individuals with a heritable trait have a higher fitness
- 21. total number of fossils that have been discovered