Natural Selection Vocabulary

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