Biology Words

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Across
  1. 3. Increase in size of an organism
  2. 6. Chemical substances in food that an organism needs
  3. 8. Involves two parents: offspring are not identical to the parents
  4. 10. Combining simple substances to make more complex substances
  5. 11. How an organism takes materials from the environment and converts them to something it can use
  6. 13. Involves all the chemical reactions/activities carried on in an organism
  7. 15. Involves activities that control and coordinate an organism: they help maintain homeostasis
  8. 17. The taking in of food
  9. 18. Something capable of living on its own: it has all the characteristics of life
Down
  1. 1. The breakdown of food materials into simpler forms
  2. 2. Producing new offspring identical to the parents: involves one parent
  3. 4. The process of releasing chemical energy from complex reactions
  4. 5. Condition of maintaining a constant internal environment
  5. 7. Producing more offspring
  6. 9. Process by which materials enter and leave cells or get moved around in the organism
  7. 12. Removal of an organism's metabolic wastes
  8. 14. Involves getting rid of undigested food from the body
  9. 16. The study of life