Across
- 3. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 4. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 6. how offspring are made
- 8. an animal that naturally preys on others
- 11. some change in a population’s environment that forces natural selection to happen
- 12. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
Down
- 1. to receive genes from a parent
- 2. a way of hiding in the background, blending in
- 5. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 7. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 9. instructions for how a protein is made, related to traits
- 10. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
