Natural Selection

1. is defined as an organism's ability to pass its genetic material to its offspring
6. defined as a group of organisms that consist of similar individuals capable of interbreeding or exchanging genes among themselves
7. the act of changing something or changing your behavior to make it suitable for a new purpose or situation.
8. The production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.
9. Relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
10. A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
11. an area classified according to the species that live in that location.
13. the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area
14. An animal or plant that's a mixture of two different breeds or types.
16. the process by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding
17. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

2. The process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change.
3. choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics.
4. The natural process by which organisms best adjusted to their environment are most successful in surviving and reproducing
5. All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
7. Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
12. Trait makes an organism more capable of surviving and reproducing.
15. The direct or indirect interaction of organisms that leads to a change in fitness when the organisms share the same resource.