Across
- 3. particular characteristic, quality, or tendency that someone or something has
- 4. a person's child or children
- 7. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food.
- 9. a process by which organisms adjust their physical or behavioral characteristics to better fit their environment, increasing their chances of survival and reproduction
- 10. is a process where humans intentionally choose and breed organisms with specific desired traits to enhance those traits in future generations
- 12. the process of directly altering an organism's DNA to introduce new traits or modify existing ones
- 14. the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
Down
- 1. the continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution
- 2. an animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals to survive.
- 5. a scientist
- 6. is a key mechanism of evolution where organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on those advantageous traits to their offspring
- 7. the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region
- 8. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 11. a living individual, encompassing any plant, animal, fungus, bacterium, or single-celled life form
- 13. units of heredity that carry instructions from parents to offspring.