Natural Selection and Evolution

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Across
  1. 4. Discovered the process of natural selection
  2. 5. The mechanism used for organisms to change based on their environment
  3. 6. A gene passed down from parents
  4. 8. The bird Darwin studied
  5. 9. Darwin noticed these had different sizes and shapes for food
  6. 11. The type of selection that favors extreme traits over common ones
  7. 12. The process by which inherited traits make it easier to thrive
Down
  1. 1. Remains of a once-living organism that can tell us about the past
  2. 2. Islands where Darwin studied
  3. 3. Different members of a population have individual
  4. 7. The idea that gene distribution changes over time
  5. 10. An idea that explains several phenomena at once