Apologia Biology Module 1 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. reporduction accomplished by a single organism
- 3. organisms that eat only plants
- 8. the science of classifying organisms
- 10. a cell that has no distinct, membrane-bound organelles
- 12. process by which green plants use energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce its own food
- 14. organisms that are able to make their own food
- 15. a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
- 16. process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring
- 20. organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
- 21. all processes in an organism which CONVERT energy and matter to use to sustain its life
- 23. unit of one or more populations of indiviuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units
- 24. organisms that produce their own food
Down
- 1. an abrupt and marked difference in the DNA of an organism compared to its parents
- 3. organisms that depend on other organisms for their food
- 4. special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment
- 5. all processes in an organism which BREAK DOWN chemical to produce energy and simple chemical building blocks
- 6. a cell with distinct, membrane-bound organelles
- 7. living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye
- 9. all processes in an organism which use energy and simple chemical building blocks to produce large chemicals and structures necessary for life
- 11. organisms that eat living producers and/or other consumers for food
- 13. organisms that eat both plants and other organisms
- 17. the idea that, long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through random chemical reactions
- 18. organisms that eat only organisms other than plants
- 19. an educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
- 22. a theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data