Across
- 1. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 5. a characteristic that all members of a species have
- 6. the number of individuals with each trait in a population
- 9. a group of individuals born and living at about the same time
- 12. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 14. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 15. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 16. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
Down
- 2. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 3. the process by which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
- 4. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 7. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area
- 8. a graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed within a group
- 10. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
- 11. any difference in traits between individual organisms
- 13. an organism produced as a result of reproduction