Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 6. the process where humans deliberately choose organisms with specific traits to reproduce and pass on those traits to future generations.
  2. 8. relating to genes or heredity.
  3. 9. a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
  4. 11. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
  5. 13. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
  6. 14. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
  7. 15. the process by which traits that enhance an organism's ability to survive and reproduce become more common in a population over generations
Down
  1. 1. a process where individuals best adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more successfully than those less adapted
  2. 2. 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.
  3. 3. The scientist who discovered natural selection.
  4. 4. an animal that naturally preys on others.
  5. 5. focuses on the study and application of kinetic energy, which is the energy of motion.
  6. 7. a person's child or children.
  7. 10. the whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region
  8. 12. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.