Across
- 3. A heritable trait that has evolved through the process of natural selection, which maintains or increases the fitness of an organism under a given set of environmental conditions
- 6. Containing two copies of each chromosome
- 8. Speciation caused by genetic variation between members of a population
- 10. The observable characteristics of an organism
- 11. Changes in the composition of a gene pool for a population over generations
Down
- 1. Containing one copy of each chromosome
- 2. Sequence of DNA found at a specific location that codes for a trait
- 4. When an individual organism experiences a change in its phenotype in response to environmental stressors
- 5. Different versions or variants of the same gene
- 7. Containing more than 2 copies of each chromosome
- 9. The set of genes in a given organism