Natural Selection

6. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
8. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific
9. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
11. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
12. a characteristic that all members of a species have
13. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
14. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
16. a group of organisms of the same kind that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
17. a related organism from a previous generation

1. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
2. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
3. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
4. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
5. to stay alive
7. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
8. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many
10. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
15. an organism produced as a result of reproduction