Characteristics of Living Things

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