Across
- 2. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 4. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 5. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 7. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 9. a group of organisms of the same kind, that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
- 10. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
Down
- 1. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
- 3. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 6. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 8. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 11. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of