Natural Selection Vocab

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