Natural Selection Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  2. 5. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
  3. 9. a related organism from a previous generation
  4. 11. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  5. 16. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
  6. 17. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific
  7. 20. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
  8. 21. an event or process that leads to a result or change
  9. 24. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  10. 25. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
  11. 27. something in the environment that affects an individual’s chances of surviving
  12. 28. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
Down
  1. 1. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  2. 2. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  3. 4. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  4. 5. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
  5. 6. a specific form of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein
  6. 7. to receive genes from a parent
  7. 8. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  8. 10. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many
  9. 12. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
  10. 13. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  11. 14. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  12. 15. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
  13. 18. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  14. 19. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
  15. 22. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  16. 23. a characteristic that all members of a species have
  17. 26. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
  18. 27. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproducewith organisms from any other group