Across
- 3. Natural selection acts on __.
- 4. High rates of population growth results in increased __
- 6. Strongly endorsed idea “inheritance of acquired characteristics”
- 7. a measure of relative reproductive success in a given environment
- 10. who published The Origin of Species in 1859
- 12. If certain __ traits lead to increased success in producing offspring... these traits become more common in the population over time.
- 16. salmon, coral, and insects are __ species due to their reproductive strategy
- 17. where Darwin studies fossils and species
- 19. Fitness is determined by __ (best suitability) to a given environment.
- 21. Evolutionary change occurs in __.
- 22. humans and elephants are __ species due to their reproductive strategy
Down
- 1. Natural Selection is __, unequal reproductive success.
- 2. All organisms share common __ with other organisms.
- 5. Natural selection can only take place if there is __ with genetic basis among individuals in a population.
- 8. __ change over time & space.
- 9. simultaneously arrived at the theory of natural selection
- 11. selection by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding (playing the role of nature).
- 13. Some traits are consistently passed on from parent to offspring
- 14. geologist who wrote Principles of Geology
- 15. source of new alleles
- 18. Evolutionary change is __.
- 20. Hutton saw how __, repetitive processes of change had shaped Earth over long periods of time