Across
- 2. to receive genes from a parent
- 5. a related organism from a previous generation
- 10. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 11. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 12. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 14. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 15. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 16. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
Down
- 1. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 3. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 4. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 6. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 7. an idea about what might happen that is based on what you already know
- 8. a type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
- 9. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 13. a group of organisms of the same kind (in one or more populations) that do not reproduce with organisms from any other group