Biology Advanced Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. The idea that complex cells started when one cell swallowed another.
- 4. A tree like map showing how species are related.
- 7. Studying how babies develop before birth to find evolutionary links.
- 10. Multicellular organisms that must eat food to survive and usually move around to find it.
- 11. Multicellular organisms that make their own food from sunlight and have cell walls.
- 12. The cell’s brain or control center. it holds the DNA.
- 15. Complex cells with a nucleus.
- 17. The powder containing male plant cells.
- 20. The instruction manual molecule for all life.
- 23. Everywhere on Earth where life exists.
- 25. Molecules made of amino acids that do the work in cells.
- 28. Using electricity to sort DNA by size.
- 30. A random change in the genetic code.
- 31. A large region with a specific climate.
- 32. The female part of a flower.
- 33. Parts that look similar because of a shared ancestor.
- 35. All the living and non living things in one area.
- 36. The biggest, broadest group of living things.
- 37. The slow regrowth of an ecosystem over time.
- 39. Humans choosing parents to get specific traits.
Down
- 2. How living things change over very long periods of time.
- 3. Any germ that causes disease.
- 5. A sneaky viral attack where the virus hides and sleeps inside the cell.
- 6. A fast viral attack that bursts the host cell.
- 8. Green panels in plants that catch sunlight.
- 9. Directly changing an organism's DNA.
- 11. The lab tool that photocopies DNA.
- 13. The tiny, controllable openings on the surface of leaves that act like valves for a plant's gas exchange.
- 14. When migration mixes the DNA of different populations.
- 16. A chemical name tag that identifies a germ.
- 18. Y shaped proteins that attack specific germs.
- 19. A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
- 21. The first organisms to grow in a lifeless area.
- 22. The second largest group of living things.
- 24. Simple cells without a nucleus.
- 26. A group of closely related species.
- 27. Organisms that can mate and have fertile offspring.
- 29. Parts that do the same job but are not related.
- 34. A female egg cell.
- 38. A training shot that teaches the immune system to fight a germ.