Natural Selection Definitions

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Across
  1. 2. an instruction for making a protein molecule
  2. 7. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
  3. 9. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  4. 11. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
  5. 13. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
  6. 14. to receive genes from a parent
  7. 16. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
Down
  1. 1. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
  2. 3. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
  3. 4. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
  4. 5. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
  5. 6. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
  6. 8. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
  7. 10. any difference in traits between individual organisms
  8. 12. a result or change that happens because of an event or process
  9. 15. an event or process that leads to a result or change