Across
- 5. any complete set of individuals, objects, or events that share a common characteristic
- 8. 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.
- 9. the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
- 12. relating to genes or heredity
- 13. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- 15. the founder of natural selection
Down
- 1. the deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material
- 2. an animal's young
- 3. distinguishing quality or characteristic
- 4. he continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others
- 6. the process where humans intentionally choose and breed organisms with specific, desirable traits
- 7. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
- 10. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
- 11. an animal that naturally preys on others
- 14. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
