Evolution Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Populations become more and more dissimilar in terms of genetics and structures.
  2. 5. Using the development of organisms to show evolutionary relationships.
  3. 6. A trait that evolved in a common ancestor, and is present in all subsequent groups.
  4. 8. A diagram showing the evolutionary history of a group of organisms.
  5. 10. The history of life documented in rocks and imprints.
  6. 11. The formation of a new species through the course of evolutionary events.
Down
  1. 1. The most recent individual from all the organisms of a group are descended.
  2. 3. A physical separation of populations-also called allopatric speciation.
  3. 4. Darwin's explanation of populations changing with their environment.
  4. 7. The migration of individuals and their alleles between populations.
  5. 9. A common ancestor plus all its descendants.