Across
- 1. a group of the same kind of organisms
- 3. random change in a gene resulting in a new trait
- 5. a shared trait all members of a species have
- 11. an animal that is hunted and killed by a predator
- 12. when two parents create an offspring
- 15. to stay alive
- 16. an event/process that leads to a result
- 17. an individual's specific characteristic
- 18. a young insect that looks different from the adult
- 20. molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
- 22. when distribution of a trait changes over time
- 26. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 27. a long piece of DNA that contains many genes
- 28. living things, plants, animals, and bacteria
- 29. everything living surrounding an organism
- 30. a trait making something less likely to survive somewhere
- 31. a form of a gene that instructs making particular protein molecule
Down
- 2. hiding by blending in with your background
- 4. a trait that helps something survive
- 6. a related organism from a previous generation
- 7. an organism resulting in reproduction
- 8. something that affects an organisms chance of survival
- 9. an idea of what will happen in the future
- 10. an animal that hunts and kills others for food
- 13. a result/change because of a process/event
- 14. to receive genes from a parent
- 19. a large molecule that does important things
- 21. amount of people who have a trait in a group
- 23. a group of the same organisms living together
- 24. a graph using bars showing the distribution of characteristics
- 25. difference between traits of an organism
- 26. group of individuals living at the same time