Biology

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Across
  1. 2. Tiny prison where all life begins and occasionally divides to escape
  2. 5. Nature's soap opera where everyone eats someone else
  3. 9. Molecular worker bee that does all the actual heavy lifting
  4. 10. Molecular chef that speeds up reactions without getting consumed
  5. 13. Fancy word for any living thing that complains about Monday mornings
  6. 14. Twisted ladder that stores your embarrassing family traits
  7. 16. Science that explains why you inherited your dad's sneezing volume
  8. 17. Nature's insurance policy against boring sameness
  9. 19. Nature's longest running trial-and-error experiment
  10. 20. Nature's roommate arrangement that actually works
  11. 22. Cellular division that creates genetic lottery tickets
  12. 23. How your body burns food without actually catching fire
  13. 25. Your body's internal combustion engine that processes pizza
  14. 26. Green molecule that makes plants better at eating sunlight than you
  15. 28. Your body's thermostat that never quite works right
Down
  1. 1. Command center that bosses around everything in the cellular neighborhood
  2. 3. Water's tendency to move where the party is saltier
  3. 4. Bouncer that decides what gets into the cellular nightclub
  4. 6. The ultimate copy-paste function that cells perform
  5. 7. Evolution's way of solving problems really, really slowly
  6. 8. Genetic filing cabinet that determines if you'll go bald
  7. 11. Genetic typo that sometimes creates superpowers or weird thumbs
  8. 12. Group of creatures that can make babies together without embarrassment
  9. 15. Cellular jello that holds everything together in a gooey mess
  10. 18. Protein factory that never takes coffee breaks
  11. 21. Science of giving everything ridiculously long Latin names
  12. 24. Plant magic that turns sunshine into lunch
  13. 27. Blame system for why you have your mother's nose