Across
- 1. the total number of people or organisms living in a specific area,
- 5. something produced to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to meet different situations
- 6. an animal that hunts, captures, and eats other animals for food.
- 8. the science and practice of cultivating land and raising crops and livestock to provide food, fiber, and other materials for human use
- 13. the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
- 14. he study of heredity, which is the passing down of traits (like eye color or disease risk) from parents to offspring
Down
- 1. an animal hunted and eaten by another animal for food,
- 2. the descendants of a parent, either humans, animals, or plants.
- 3. the process where humans choose which individuals in a population are allowed to reproduce, based on specific traits. This process is repeated over generations, leading to
- 4. a distinctive characteristic or quality, often associated with personality or genetics
- 7. of the Fittest the natural process by which organisms best adjusted to their environment are most successful in surviving and reproducing
- 9. any living thing that functions as an individual
- 10. the natural environment where a plant or animal lives, providing it with the necessary resources like food, water, shelter, and space to survive.
- 11. survival of the fittest,"
- 12. Engineering a process that uses laboratory-based technologies to alter the DNA makeup of an organism.
