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Across
  1. 2. slight differences between individuals in the same species
  2. 3. A structure that is present in an organism but no longer serves its original purpose
  3. 5. A person who studies plants and animals by observing them
  4. 7. the human practice of breeding animals or plants that have certain desired traits
  5. 9. The preserved remains or traces of organisms that once lived on Earth.
  6. 11. an adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment
  7. 13. Body parts that share a common function, but not structure
  8. 14. English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection 1859
  9. 15. the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution
  10. 16. similarities in development before birth that demonstrate relationships between different species
  11. 17. The max amount of organisms that the envirnment can support
  12. 18. A trait that helps an organism better survive in it's environment
Down
  1. 1. Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry.
  2. 4. a naturalist from the year 1858
  3. 6. The process by which individuals with variations that help them survive in their environment will live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than individuals without those variations
  4. 8. change over time
  5. 10. a naturalist from the year 1809
  6. 12. The resemblance of one species to another species
  7. 16. When the last individual of a species dies