Characteristics of Life

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Across
  1. 3. Ability of an organism to adjust to its environment.
  2. 6. Detects changes in variable.
  3. 9. It is also known as qualitative or holistic growth; it started from birth to reproduction until death.
  4. 10. Point Normal or average value of a variable.
  5. 11. Center Receives receptor signal, establishes set point, and sends signal to effector.
  6. 12. Movement of substances from less concentration to high concentration.
  7. 14. Building up of complex chemical substances from smaller, simpler components.
  8. 15. Movement of substances from a region of higher concentration to lower concentration.
Down
  1. 1. Measures of body properties that may change in value.
  2. 2. This is the origin of the egg cells.
  3. 4. Range A normal extent of increase or decrease around a set point.
  4. 5. The sum of all chemical processes that occur in the body.
  5. 7. Feedback The main mechanism used in homeostatic regulation.
  6. 8. It is the maintenance of constant internal environment despite fluctuations in the internal or external environment.
  7. 13. The development of a cell from an unspecialized state to a specialized state.