Characteristics of Life & Life Functions
Across
- 1. Ability to prevent or fight disease
- 3. Ability to maintain a stable internal environment
- 4. A reaction to an internal or external stimuli
- 5. Made of only one cell
- 7. Only 1 parent creates offspring, all offspring genetically identical to parent
- 9. Something that was once alive
- 10. To make or obtain energy(food)
- 11. To break down food into simple nutrients
- 14. Regulation of processes inside an organism
- 15. An internal or external change in an organisms environment
- 17. Ability to move in the environment. ex: walk, fly, swim
- 21. Removal of waste (liquid and gasses)
- 22. Something that doesn't have, and never has had, all the characteristics of life
Down
- 2. Made of many cells
- 6. To make new life
- 8. Creation of proteins, enzymes and any chemical needed for life
- 12. To move materials inside an organism (circulation)
- 13. Gas exchange and production of ATP in mitochondria
- 16. Something that has all the characteristics of life
- 18. 2 parents needed to create offspring, offspring NOT genetically identical to parents
- 19. Increasing in size
- 20. Changes or transformations
- 23. An individual living thing