Natural Selection Vocab

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