DR 40

1. the study of living organisms
8. a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat
9. a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms
10. reformed or reborn, especially in a spiritual or moral sense
11. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations
15. the origin or mode of formation of something
17. relating to genes or heredity
20. a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
21. an undertaker
22. an account of a person's life written by that person
24. a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring

2. all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively
3. a legal agreement by which a bank or other creditor lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property, with the condition that the conveyance of title becomes void upon the payment of the debt
4. capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms
5. cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
6. the branch of science that deals with microorganisms
7. subject to death
12. characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific
13. a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent
14. an account of someone's life written by someone else
16. cause (something, especially an emotion or situation) to arise or come about
18. living forever; never dying or decaying
19. relating to, living in, or suited for both land and water
23. a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring