Natural Selection Vocabulary

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