Across
- 1. the branch of biology that deals with phylogenesis.
- 4. the disguising of military personnel, equipment, and installations by painting or covering them to make them blend in with their surroundings.
- 7. a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
- 8. the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
- 10. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
Down
- 2. 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. an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
- 5. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- 6. a person's child or children.
- 9. a self-replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.