Growth and Survival

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Across
  1. 7. plants with tubes in roots, stems, and leaves
  2. 9. can anchor plants to soil and store food
  3. 10. single reproductive cells that grow into new plants
  4. 12. no tubes, pass water and nutrients from cell to cell
  5. 13. a characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce
  6. 14. are thick and grow straight down, ex. dandelion
  7. 15. process by which plants make their own food
  8. 16. is a growing plant
Down
  1. 1. a random change in a gene
  2. 2. to sprout
  3. 3. organelles that contain chlorophyll
  4. 4. a hard skeleton on the outside of the body
  5. 5. is tiny plant within seed
  6. 6. helps plants use light energy to produce sugars
  7. 8. holes on the surface of a plant leaf through which gases pass
  8. 11. air hole on the skin of an insect’s body
  9. 16. the predictable order of changes in communities after a change occurs