Scientific Method and Characteristics of Life

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Across
  1. 2. act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way
  2. 4. reproduction A type of reproduction when offspring are clones of the parent
  3. 8. DNA codes for _______
  4. 11. structure determines ______
  5. 12. Process in which cells become specialized in structure and function
  6. 13. The smallest, functional unit of life
  7. 15. acid DNA, the universal genetic code
  8. 16. Maintaining a stable, internal enviroment
Down
  1. 1. scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it
  2. 3. an inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival
  3. 5. experiment an experiment in which only one variable is changed
  4. 6. reproduction a type of reproduction when two cells must unite tocreate offspring
  5. 7. A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react
  6. 9. group a group that is tested on everything except for the changed variable
  7. 10. all of the reactions that occur as your body breaks down food into molecules that cells can use
  8. 14. a change in allele frequencies in a population over time