Features and Characteristics of life

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Across
  1. 2. a living thing
  2. 9. taking in of food
  3. 10. all chemical reactions occurring within cells of an organism
  4. 11. organism uses material from environment and converts it to something it can use
  5. 14. releasing chemical energy from complex reactions
  6. 16. substances entering / leaving cell
  7. 17. reproduction involves 2 parents offspring not identical to parent
Down
  1. 1. breakdown of food into similar forms
  2. 3. involves activities that control and coordinate an organism
  3. 4. sexual reproduction producing offspring with only one parent
  4. 5. chemical substances in food that an organism needs
  5. 6. increase in size of an organism
  6. 7. removal of waste substances from an organism
  7. 8. condition of maintaining constant internal environment
  8. 12. producing new offspring
  9. 13. study of life
  10. 15. combine substances chemically to form complex substances