Across
- 5. Characteristics that are passed on to you from your parents
- 6. Famous naturalist who worked on the theory of natural selection
- 8. Develop gradually
- 9. A trait that exists in the present animal but not in its ancestors
- 10. A group of similar organisms
- 11. Differences in individuals of the same species
- 14. Part of a DNA that controls growth and characteristics
- 16. Progress or evolve through natural growth
- 18. organism whose genetic material has been altered with genetic engineering
- 19. The process or act of trying to win
- 20. similar in form or function, but of different evolutionary origin
Down
- 1. Derive genetically
- 2. An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form
- 3. A process in which a human chooses a plant or animal to breed based on specific traits
- 4. An animal's natural coloring that enables it to blend in with its surroundings.
- 7. A feature that helps a living thing survive better. Happens through natural selection
- 12. An animals young
- 13. The surroundings/conditions in which an organism lives
- 15. Animals that are born and living at about the same time
- 17. A change in genetic material, results from damage in DNA or exposure from radiation