Across
- 1. Major taxonomic group, like Animalia or Plantae
- 9. Islands famous for finches studied by Darwin which sparked the idea for evolution
- 10. Kingdom of multicellular heterotrophs
- 11. Process where the fittest survive and reproduce
- 13. Heritable characteristics like eye color
- 15. Broadest taxonomic category above kingdom
- 16. Group of organisms that can interbreed
- 17. Gradual change in organisms over generations
Down
- 2. Random DNA change that may create variation
- 3. Inherited features that improve survival
- 4. Kingdom of multicellular autotrophs with cell walls
- 5. Kingdom of mostly single-celled eukaryotes
- 6. Domain of prokaryotic microbes
- 7. Co-discoverer of natural selection with Darwin
- 8. Naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution while exploring South America
- 12. Scientist who created binomial nomenclature
- 14. Science of naming and classifying organisms