Across
- 4. What is the scientific study of fossils?
- 7. What is the process by which favorable traits become more common in a population over successive generations
- 8. What is the study of the similarities and differences in the anatomy of different species?
- 9. What term describes the variety of genes and alleles in a population?
- 11. What three scientists developed the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory?
- 13. What is the process by which new species arise from existing species?
- 15. What did Gregor Mendel study that laid the groundwork for the field of genetics?
Down
- 1. What term describes the process by which unrelated species evolve similar traits due to similar environmental pressures?
- 2. Who proposed the theory of the continuity of germ-plasm?
- 3. What term describes the study of the evolutionary history of species?
- 5. Who independently proposed a theory of evolution by natural selection alongside Charles Darwin?
- 6. Which scientist developed the theory of catastrophism?
- 10. What is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time?
- 12. Who is often credited with the theory of evolution by natural selection?
- 14. Which scientist proposed the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics?