Beaty Biodiversity Crossword
Across
- 3. this peach plant can produce the same toxin that was used to poison Jared!!!
- 4. some scientists prefer a broader definition of “plants” that encompasses both the land plants and this group.
- 7. moss in this stage usually grows short stalks topped with capsules full of spores
- 8. most Fungi live most of their lives in masses of microscopic, thread-like _______ hidden in soil or plant material.
- 9. the name of the hanging whale skeleton in Beaty.
- 12. this animal has the longest hairs of any non-human mammal.
- 16. members of this class include salamanders, caecilians, and frogs.
- 17. this phylum of plants bear their seeds in cones.
- 18. this type of fish have eyes on one side of their body (no textual clues for this).
- 20. this group contains some of the most striking animal om Earth (and are commonly called “flatworms”).
- 23. members of this phylum have powerful suction in their tube feet.
Down
- 1. this 775 year old western redcedar tree was brought to UBC in the 1950s.
- 2. this organism can be seen situated between “snakes and lizards” and “birds” somewhere in the museum (or on a person :3)
- 5. the scientific name of the tree that is useful for all aspects of life for the Squamish and Lil-wat nations (no spaces).
- 6. eating this organism can easily kill you, thanks to a powerful neurotoxin in its flesh. But its meat is a delicacy in Japan.
- 9. the oldest known multicellular eukaryote.
- 10. the vase sponge, endangered from overharvesting, belongs in this Phylum.
- 11. before it was discovered in South Africa in 1938, this early ancestor of tetrapods was long thought to be extinct.
- 13. apples are a member of this family!
- 14. members in this family are found on every continent except Antarctica.
- 15. this type of virus infects bacteria.
- 19. this word means “wood” in Latin and is the stuff that gives plant cell walls strength.
- 21. Ginkgo belongs in a group of ______ plants.
- 22. easily identified by the “whiskers: on either side of their mouths.