Across
- 7. The production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed.
- 8. The condition of being physically fit and healthy.
- 9. Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution..
- 11. The process of choosing animals that meet the requirements of the breeding objective and will, in a breeding enterprise, pass particular traits onto their progeny.
- 12. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
- 16. Traits that promote an organism's success in a particular environment.
- 17. The process by which humans choose individual organisms with certain phenotypic trait values for breeding.
- 18. A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat,
Down
- 1. The activity or condition of competing.
- 2. Relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
- 3. Produce (an animal or plant) by mating or hybridizing two different species, breeds, or varieties.
- 4. The continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution.
- 5. All the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
- 6. A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- 10. All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
- 13. The action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- 14. Physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 15. A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.