Natural selection

2. a process that uses laboratory-based technologies to alter the DNA makeup of an organism.
4. The study of genes and heredity.
7. a method of reproduction when a single parent produces a child.
8. the method by which people choose the qualities they desire an organism to possess.
9. a number that reflects the chance or likelihood that a particular event will occur.
11. More environment-adapted organisms are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that contributed to their success.
13. a quality that sets one person or thing off from another
14. the possessions that a person leaves to their heirs after passing away.
15. the process through which organisms adapt to their surroundings to increase their chances of surviving there.

1. selecting parents with specific traits to breed with one another and produce kids with more desirable traits
3. happens when the male parent's sperm fertilizes the female parent's egg, resulting in the birth of a child that is genetically distinct from both parents.
5. the processes used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue or organism.
6. the presence of differences in sequences of genes between individual organisms of a species.
10. Any change in the DNA sequence of a cell.
12. species' traits over numerous generations through the use of natural selection.