Natural Selection

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Across
  1. 1. the action or process of mutating
  2. 3. the disguising of military personnel, equipment, and installations by painting or covering them to make them blend in with their surroundings.
  3. 5. theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built.
  4. 6. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
  5. 10. of Evolution based on the idea that all species? are related and gradually change over time.
  6. 12. a change or difference in condition, amount, or level, typically with certain limits.
Down
  1. 2. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
  2. 4. Selection the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.
  3. 7. develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
  4. 8. derive (a quality, characteristic, or predisposition) genetically from one's parents or ancestors.
  5. 9. a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
  6. 11. a theory of evolution based on the principle that physical changes in organisms during their lifetime