Natural Species

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