Plant and Animal Adaptations
Across
- 5. traits that help an organism survive in a certain environment
- 10. phenotypic ______ ; ability of a genotype to express different phenotypes as a response to environmental changes
- 12. conversion of light energy to chemical energy into sugars
- 13. pores on the leaves that allow gas exchange
- 14. element required for aerobic respiration
- 16. modified gene as a result of genetic recombination
- 17. change in a nucleotide sequence of an organism’s DNA
- 18. animal that mainly consumes plants or algae
- 19. component of rubisco and chlorophyll needed for photosynthesis
Down
- 1. where an organism lives in an ecosystem
- 2. animals that can regulate their own internal environments in varying external environments
- 3. change in characteristics of species over a long period of time
- 4. maintenance of a stable internal environment of an organism
- 6. animals with body temperatures that varies with the external environment
- 7. loss of water through the stomata of the leaves
- 8. animals with internal changes induced by external environment
- 9. state of low metabolic activity, temperature, heartbeat, and breathing
- 10. observable physical trait determined by genetic makeup
- 11. photosynthetic pathway in plants that close stomata during the day and open them at night to collect CO2
- 15. genetic makeup of an organism