Natural Selection

4. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
6. a young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult
7. a characteristic that all members of a species have
11. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
12. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
13. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
15. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
16. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
19. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
20. to stay alive
21. to receive genes from a parent
22. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
23. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
25. an event or process that leads to a result or change
26. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
27. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
29. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
30. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
31. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
32. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule

1. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
2. something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
3. an instruction for making a protein molecule
5. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
8. a related organism from a previous generation
9. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
10. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
14. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
17. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
18. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
24. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
28. any difference in traits between individual organisms