Life Science CK12 3.21 Agriculture

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Across
  1. 3. a group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring
  2. 5. top layer of Earth's surface containing weathered rocks, minerals, and organic material
  3. 6. (Arabidopsis thaliana): a tiny weed often used for plant research because it is very easy to grow, and its DNA has been mapped
  4. 8. way of gaining knowledge about the natural world that depends on evidence, reasoning, and repeated testing
  5. 9. science of heredity, or how traits are passed from parents to offspring
  6. 10. use of technology to change the genetic makeup of living things in order to produce useful products for human purposes
  7. 11. double-stranded nucleic acid that stores genetic information; also known as deoxyribonucleic acid
  8. 12. one of the abilities to sense chemicals; begins through taste buds on the tongue
Down
  1. 1. a segment of DNA that carries the genetic code to make a specific polypeptide chain
  2. 2. crop that has been genetically modified with new genes that code for traits useful to humans
  3. 4. chemical used to kill insects; also known as pesticide
  4. 7. basic unit of structure and function of living things