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Evolution and Natural Selection Crossword Puzzle for High School is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Evolution and Natural Selection Crossword Puzzle for High School
Challenge your understanding of evolution and natural selection with this hard-level crossword puzzle. Features advanced terminology and concepts for grades 9-12.
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Across
- 1. Process leading to preservation of ancient organisms in rock
- 2. Variety of life forms within a habitat or ecosystem
- 3. Random changes in allele frequencies in small populations
- 4. The formation of new and distinct species through evolution
- 6. Trait that increases an organism’s fitness in its environment
- 7. Process by which two species evolve differences from a common ancestor
- 9. Observable physical or biochemical traits of an organism
- 10. Variant form of a gene found at a specific locus
- 12. Type of speciation occurring within the same geographic area
- 14. Random change in DNA sequence that can introduce variation
- 15. Sum of all alleles present in a population
- 16. Imitation of one species by another for protective advantage
Down
- 5. A group consisting of a species and all its descendants
- 8. Differential survival and reproduction due to advantageous traits
- 11. Structures sharing common ancestry but not function
- 13. Organism with two identical alleles for a particular gene
- 17. Differences in traits among individuals within a population
- 18. Measure of reproductive success relative to others in the population
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