Across
- 2. the process by which one population evolves into two or more different species
- 3. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
- 4. an instruction for making a protein molecule
- 7. a random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
- 8. a trait that makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
- 9. a body structure in two or more species that features the same parts (for example, the same bones)
- 10. an older population from which two or more newer species descended
- 13. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
- 14. when something stays mostly the same over time
Down
- 1. a population that is eaten by organisms from another population
- 5. a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
- 6. a population that eats organisms from another population
- 11. the part of a cell where genes are found
- 12. the parts of the cell that build protein molecules based on instructions from genes