Biology
Across
- 2. Passing of traits from parents to offspring.
- 4. Group of animals that have no backbone.
- 5. Metabolic process that consumes sugar in the absence of oxygen.
- 6. Basic division of biological classification.
- 7. A genetic variant.
- 8. Highly motile unicellular organism.
- 13. Marine pioneer & co-inventor of scuba.
- 14. Movement of a high concentration of molecules through a membrane to a lower concentration.
- 18. requiring an absence of free oxygen.
- 19. Smallest particle of an element or compound with the chemical properties of that element or compound.
- 24. World's foremost expert on chimpanzees
- 25. Fundamental building blocks of proteins and part of biochemical processes.
- 26. Branched extension of a nerve cell that transmits impulses.
- 27. Position an organism occupies in a food chain.
- 28. Close living relationship between different species.
- 30. Nutrient-bearing portion of the egg.
- 31. The different kinds of life found in one area.
- 33. Integral component of aquatic food chain.
Down
- 1. Process by which most plants, some algae and bacteria convert sunlight into energy.
- 3. A large in a cell that creates, packages and secretes many products made by a cell.
- 9. Community of living organisms and non-living components interacting as a system.
- 10. Submicroscopic, infectious, parasitic particle of genetic material.
- 11. Study of the animal kingdom.
- 12. A group of like tissues that contract to produce force.
- 15. Discoverer of VJ recombination (antibody diversity).
- 16. Juvenile form many animals & insects undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
- 17. Photosynthetic pigments found in cyanobacteria, algae, or plants.
- 20. Having or consisting of only one cell.
- 21. A substance or treatment of no intended therapeutic value.
- 22. Single-celled organisms which lack a true nucleus.
- 23. Species very likely to become extinct in near future.
- 29. The body's largest organ.
- 32. Australian wildlife conservationist.