Across
- 2. an inherited trait that increases an organism's chances of survival
- 6. a genetically modified organism
- 9. long time scale
- 10. change over time
- 15. a technique they use to take out a faulty protein
- 16. Isolation between populations due to physical barriers
- 17. Group of organisms that share most characteristics and can interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
- 19. each species produces more offspring that can survive
- 20. A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
Down
- 1. Separation of a species or population so that they no longer interbreed and evolve into two separate species
- 3. Individuals compete for limited resources
- 4. the strongest shall survive and reproduce
- 5. Total genetic information of all organisms in a population.
- 7. short time scale
- 8. Evolution of new species from existing species.
- 11. the ability to survive to adulthood
- 12. Any difference between individuals of the same species.
- 13. Set of traits that an organism displays
- 14. Random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the sequence of nucleotides. The source of all genetic diversity.
- 18. making an exact copy