Across
- 1. distinguishing feature of your personal nature
- 4. act of choosing
- 5. the state of remaining alive
- 6. measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
- 7. Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- 8. part of DNA controlling physical characteristics and growth
- 10. science that studies living organisms
- 11. undergo development
- 16. organisms evolve to adapt to environment
- 17. sequence of events involved in the development of a species
- 18. people who inhabit a territory or state
- 19. taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
Down
- 1. a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals
- 2. group of genetically related organisms in a line of descent
- 3. immediate descendants of a person or organism
- 9. totality of surrounding conditions
- 12. process in which something passes to a different stage
- 13. process of being or becoming different
- 14. the act of making copies
- 15. a change or alteration in form or qualities