Characteristics of Living Things

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Across
  1. 5. mechanisms that help maintain homeostasis
  2. 6. absorbing and circulating materials
  3. 7. a steady internal environment
  4. 8. cell organelle where respiration takes place
  5. 9. 1 parent; offspring identical to the parent
  6. 12. living thing the CANNOT make their own food
  7. 15. 2 parents; offspring different than parents
  8. 19. cell organelle where proteins are made
  9. 20. the production of offspring
  10. 21. total of all life processes in an organism
Down
  1. 1. making complex substances from simpler ones
  2. 2. cell structure that lets things in and out cytoplasm fluid inside cells that transports materials
  3. 3. increase in size and/or number of cells
  4. 4. using sugar and oxygen to make ATP (energy)
  5. 10. basic unit of structure and function
  6. 11. system that consists of brain & spinal cord
  7. 13. control and coordination of life activities
  8. 14. living thing that CAN make their own food
  9. 16. removal of liquid and gaseous wastes
  10. 17. system that consists of glands and hormones
  11. 18. obtaining and processing food