Natural Selection

3. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
5. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population change over many generations
6. to receive genes from a parent
10. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
12. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
14. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
15. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
18. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
19. a specific characteristic of an individual organism

1. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
2. a characteristic that all members of a species have
4. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
7. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
8. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
9. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
11. an instruction for making a protein molecule
13. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
16. a related organism from a previous generation
17. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait