Natural Selection Vocab.

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