Natural Selection Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. differences among the genomes of members of the same species
  2. 7. an area classified according to the species that live in that location
  3. 9. an organisms ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
  4. 10. producing an animal or plant by mating or hybridizing 2 different species, breeds, or varieties
  5. 13. the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations
  6. 16. the evolutionary process whereby an organism becomes better able to live in its habitat
  7. 17. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations
  8. 18. choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics
Down
  1. 1. in dangerous circumstances, only those individuals most adapted to their environment survive
  2. 3. the production of more of a product, commodity, or substance then is wanted or needed
  3. 4. physical rather than biological not derived from living organisms
  4. 5. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
  5. 6. traits that promote an organism's success in a particular environment
  6. 8. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively
  7. 11. a genetically determined characteristic
  8. 12. the number of people in a single area
  9. 14. the activity or condition of competing
  10. 15. the process by which new species or populations of living things develop from preexisting forms through successive generations