Vocab Science Natural selection

2. any difference in traits between individual organisms
5. an idea about what might happen
7. a way of hiding by looking the same as the background
11. graph that uses bars to show how characteristics or values are distributed
12. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal
14. instructions for making a protein molecule
15. a related organism from a previous generation
19. an organism produced as a result of reproduction
21. a characteristic that all members of a species have
22. to stay alive
25. a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in an environment
27. group of individuals born and living at about the same time
28. living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria
29. result or change that happens because of an event
31. molecule a type of large molecule that performs important functions inside organisms
32. a group of the same type of organism living in the same area

1. specific forms of a gene that provides instructions for making a particular protein molecule
3. random change to a gene that sometimes results in a new trait
4. number of individuals with a trait in a population
6. a piece of DNA that contains many genes
8. makes it more likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment
9. an event or process that leads to a result or change
10. type of molecule that genes and chromosomes are made of
13. everything (living and nonliving) that surrounds an organism
16. selection a process in which the distribution of traits in a population changes over many generations
17. the process in which two parents pass on their genes to create offspring
18. a specific characteristic of an individual organism
20. an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
23. a group of organisms of the same kind
24. pressure something in the environment that affects an individual's chances of surviving
26. a young insect that looks somewhat different from the adult
30. receive genes from a parent