Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 2. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food
  2. 5. a person's or animals child or children
  3. 8. organisms with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce
  4. 11. a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.
  5. 14. the ability to adjust or change to suit a new purpose or situation
  6. 15. the deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.
Down
  1. 1. a genetically determined characteristic.
  2. 3. the process where humans intentionally select for specific traits in plants and animals
  3. 4. an animal that naturally preys on others
  4. 6. the study of how characteristics and traits are passed down from parents to offspring through genes
  5. 7. farming
  6. 9. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
  7. 10. the evolutionary process by which organisms better adapted to their environment
  8. 12. where an species lives
  9. 13. British naturalist, geologist, and biologist who is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection.