Across
- 4. An instruction for making a protein molecule
- 7. Everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 10. An event or process that leads to a result or change
- 11. An idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 12. A trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
Down
- 1. A group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 2. A result or change that happens because of an event or process
- 3. The number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 5. A type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 6. A trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 8. The process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 9. A random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait