Natural Selection Crossword

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