Across
- 3. an event or process that leads to a result or change
- 5. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 11. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 14. to receive genes from a parent
- 18. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 19. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 20. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many
- 21. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
- 23. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
Down
- 1. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 2. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
- 4. a related organism from a previous generation
- 6. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 7. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 8. the number of individuals with each trait in a population a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 9. a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 10. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 12. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
- 13. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
- 15. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 16. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
- 17. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 22. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group