Natural Selection

2. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
6. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
10. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
12. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
13. any difference in traits between individual organisms
14. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism

1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
4. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
5. an instruction for making a protein molecule
7. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
8. an event or process that leads to a result or change
11. a specific characteristic of an individual organism