Natural Selection

2. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
3. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
4. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group
6. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
13. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
14. to receive genes from a parent
15. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
17. a related organism from a previous generation

1. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
5. a characteristic that all members of a species have
6. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
7. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
8. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
10. any difference in traits between individual organism
11. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
12. an instruction for making a protein molecule
16. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism