Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 2. The term for competition between individuals for resources (11 letters).
  2. 4. The variety of traits within a population (9 letters).
  3. 7. When a species no longer exists (9 letters). The process where organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce (11 letters)
  4. 8. The process by which traits are passed down from parent to offspring (8 letters).
  5. 9. characteristic that improves an organism's chance of survival (10 letters).
Down
  1. 1. The process where organisms better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce (11 letters).
  2. 3. The scientist who developed the theory of natural selection (7 letters).
  3. 5. The type of animal Darwin famously studied on the Galápagos Islands (7 letters).
  4. 6. An inherited change in DNA that introduces new traits (8 letters).