Across
- 5. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 6. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 7. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 9. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 10. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 11. an instruction for making a protein molecule
Down
- 1. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 2. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 4. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 5. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 8. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment