natural selection

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Across
  1. 5. an event or process that leads to a result or change
  2. 9. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  3. 11. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  4. 13. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  5. 14. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
  6. 16. something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
  7. 17. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
  8. 20. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
  9. 22. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environmentnon-adaptive trait
  10. 24. to receive genes from a parent
  11. 26. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  12. 28. group of the same type of organism living in the same area
  13. 29. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  14. 30. specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
Down
  1. 1. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  2. 2. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  3. 3. a characteristic that all members of a species have
  4. 4. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
  5. 5. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
  6. 6. to stay alive
  7. 7. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
  8. 8. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  9. 10. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  10. 12. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  11. 14. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
  12. 15. trait a trait that makes it more likely that and individual will survive in a specific environment
  13. 18. a young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult
  14. 19. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  15. 21. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  16. 23. a related organism from a previous generation
  17. 25. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
  18. 27. an organism produced as a result of reproduction