Across
- 1. a heritable trait that increases an organism's chance of survival or reproduction
- 3. scientific framework about the changes in traits in a population over time
- 6. the total genetic information of all members of a population
- 7. the formation of one or more new species from an existing species
- 8. a group of organisms that can breed to produce fertile offspring
- 12. a drug used to kill bacteria or slow their growth
- 14. organisms with traits that are most favorable will survive and reproduce
- 15. how eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes
- 16. an organism's ability to survive and reproduce
- 17. the introduction of genes from one population into the gene pool of another
Down
- 2. the process of evolutionary separation
- 4. a change in allele frequencies due to random chance
- 5. the remains of an organism that lived in a past age
- 9. the earliest stage of development for an organism
- 10. the role a population plays within a community
- 11. the range of possibilities for a trait in a population
- 13. an organism's ability to withstand a harmful agent