Across
- 4. change through time
- 8. a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment
- 12. a statistical test used to compare observed results with expected results
- 13. structures that don't really do much in a body
- 14. evolution on grand scale
- 18. slight difference in an inherited trait of individual members of a species
- 19. visual appearance and configuration of an organism
- 22. Genetic variation stored in population
- 23. joint change of two or more species in close interaction
- 24. disappearance of an entire species
- 26. protein in charge of the hindlimbs in mice
- 27. Structures that have similar functions but different forms
- 28. two or more related species becoming more and more dissimilar
Down
- 1. Darwinian Medicine
- 2. sticklebacks with present pelvic spines
- 3. Father of Modern Taxonomy
- 5. evolution on a small scale
- 6. experiment performed by Esther and Joshua Lederberg in 1952
- 7. imaginary animals used for exploring taxonomic classification and evolution
- 9. reason for extinction that is caused by volcanic eruption, dramatic change in climate, tsunami
- 10. defined as the niche of a species in the absence of competition
- 11. crossing over
- 12. monophyletic group
- 14. Changes in the information contained in genetic material
- 15. falls outside the clade being studied but is closely related to that clade
- 16. the ship Charles Darwin used to travel around the world
- 17. the relationship of a species with the components of an ecosystem
- 20. type of adaptation that focuses on the way an organism acts or behaves
- 21. branching points on a tree, represents speciation or lineage splitting event
- 25. belief that the creation story in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible book of Genesis is literally true